Fn hotkeys in Kubuntu 8.10 HP nx6110

[Antonio]

Binary package hint: hotkey-setup

Fail Sleep, Print Screen, Battery.

Spain/Spanish keyboard.

According to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/HotkeyResearch:

Manufacurer: Hewlett-Packard
Product name: HP Compaq nx6110 (PY500ET#ABE)
Version: F.0B

Using xev for hotkey.

Sleep hotkey:
1. Fn+F3 should sleep the computer.
2. Hotkey: 150 XF86Sleep

Print Screen:
1. Fn+Ins should run print screen application.
2. Hotkey: 107 Print

Battery:
1. Fn+F8 should run battery application.
2. Hotkey: 244 XF86Battery

Fn hotkeys are working properly with Ubuntu 8.10, same computer.

Related bugs:
Bug #311279
Bug #312068

[Amedee Van Gasse (amedee)]

Perhaps this bug is related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/445832

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

no, it's not the least bit related. Neither your hardware, nor the hardware of the submitters of either of these bugs, matches. Hotkey handling is vendor-specific.

[Amedee Van Gasse (amedee)]

Ok, just that I understand correct: you are saying that an event "150 XF86Sleep" will be handled different depending on the vendor?

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

No, I'm saying that any problems with the key being processed are hardware-specific.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The original report indicates that the hotkeys are detected by xev, and that they function with Ubuntu 8.10; reassigning to kubuntu.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Should be fixed in Kubuntu 9.10 and up. (If not, the KDE apps need to handle them by default and this should be reported to bugs.kde.org.