Bug#731418: gnome-session-flashback: Laptop special-function keys don't work anymore

[Francois Gouget]

Package: gnome-session-flashback
Version: 3.8.0-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Since the upgrade from GNOME 3.6 to 3.8 my laptop's special-function / 
multimedia keys (Fn+xxx) don't work anymore. This means I cannot use 
them to suspend to RAM, adjust the screen brightness, change the volume, 
mute the sound, etc.

Note that I can still use Fn+Page Up/Down to get the Home/End 
equivalents. Also they still work to adjust the screen brightness in the 
regular GNOME session (I did not test them all there). So this breakage 
is really specific to GNOME Flashback.

A partial workaround is to use the Shutdown -> Suspend menu to suspend 
the laptop, and the Volume control applet to adjust the sound volume. I 
don't know of a workaround to adjust the screen brightness however.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-session-flashback depends on:
ii  gnome-panel            3.8.0-1
ii  gnome-screensaver      3.6.1-1
ii  gnome-session-bin      3.8.4-3
ii  gnome-session-common   3.8.4-3
ii  gnome-settings-daemon  3.8.5-2
ii  metacity               1:2.34.13-1
ii  nautilus               3.8.2-2
ii  notification-daemon    0.7.6-1
ii  policykit-1-gnome      0.105-2

Versions of packages gnome-session-flashback recommends:
ii  gnome-power-manager  3.8.2-1

Versions of packages gnome-session-flashback suggests:
ii  desktop-base      7.0.3
ii  gnome-keyring     3.8.2-2
ii  gnome-user-guide  3.8.2-1

-- no debconf information