Accessibility - Thinkpad hotkey fn-space should launch desktop zoom
Bug #324814 reported by
Chris Bainbridge
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #313514: MASTER: evdev driver ignores keycodes > 255.
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| xorg-server (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubuntu-desktop
Under Jaunty both KDE and GNOME appear to supply desktop magnification software to aid accessibility as part of the base desktop install.
On Thinkpads there is a defined hotkey for this software : fn-space. It would be nice if it was configured by default to launch the relevant application.
Revision history for this message
| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in ubuntu-meta: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
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This key is correctly mapped in kernel space to KEY_ZOOM, but that keycode is above 255 which means it's not accepted by X input currently. There is an outstanding bug with X upstream about this.
This key should /not/ be handled by hal-addon-input instead of X, because 'zoom' should only be applied to the current session.