Bug#684331: gnome-settings-daemon: Media-key to switch to external monitor doesn't work

[Stefan Nagy]

Package: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 3.4.2-4+b1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I have a hotkey/multimedia key/action key (Fn+F4) on my notebook's keyboard to
switch to external monitors/projectors etc. I thought it would be a normal
XF86Display-key so what I expected was something like this:
https://live.gnome.org/RandR#Handling_of_the_XF86Display_hotkey

While trying to define a custom keybinding I realized that this action key is
mapped to Super+P. In the meantime I read some bug reports like
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651571 with users complaining that
Super+P is a hardcoded shortcut (VIDEO_OUT_KEY) but shouldn't be. In dconf
editor I can see that in "org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys" "video-
out" is set to "<Super>p".

So from what I read my 'switch to external monitor'-key should just work –
but it doesn't…

Regards,
Stefan.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.12.1-2
ii  dpkg                                         1.16.4.3
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.4.2-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                                        2.13-33
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.12.2-2
ii  libcairo2                                    1.12.2-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.28-4
ii  libcanberra0                                 0.28-4
ii  libcolord1                                   0.1.21-1
ii  libcomerr2                                   1.42.4-3
ii  libcups2                                     1.5.3-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                             0.100-1
ii  libfontconfig1                               2.9.0-6
ii  libgcrypt11                                  1.5.0-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.32.3-1
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-2                         3.4.2-1
ii  libgnomekbd7                                 3.4.0.2-1
ii  libgnutls26                                  2.12.20-1
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2                             1.10.1+dfsg-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.4.2-2
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                               175-3.1
ii  libk5crypto3                                 1.10.1+dfsg-2
ii  libkrb5-3                                    1.10.1+dfsg-2
ii  liblcms2-2                                   2.2+git20110628-2.2
ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.5-1
ii  libnspr4                                     2:4.9.1-1
ii  libnspr4-0d                                  2:4.9.1-1
ii  libnss3                                      2:3.13.5-1
ii  libnss3-1d                                   2:3.13.5-1
ii  libpackagekit-glib2-14                       0.7.5-2
ii  libpango1.0-0                                1.30.0-1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0                        0.105-1
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0                      2.0-3
ii  libpulse0                                    2.0-3
ii  libsqlite3-0                                 3.7.13-1
ii  libupower-glib1                              0.9.17-1
ii  libwacom2                                    0.5-1
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxfixes3                                   1:5.0-4
ii  libxi6                                       2:1.6.1-1
ii  libxklavier16                                5.2.1-1
ii  libxtst6                                     2:1.2.1-1
ii  nautilus-data                                3.4.2-1
ii  zlib1g                                       1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon recommends:
ii  pulseaudio  2.0-3

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon suggests:
ii  gnome-screensaver            3.4.1-1
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]  1:2.34.3-2
ii  x11-xserver-utils            7.7~3

-- no debconf information