XF86 keys are not being sensed by key grabber

[Kurt Bruneau]

Under gnome-control-center's Keyboard > Shortcuts, trying to set a shortcut with a XF86 key does not work.

Edit: This is now fixed however the system is not using the XF86 hotkeys that were set with gnome-control-center.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.1.3-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-3.4-generic 3.0.0-rc5
Uname: Linux 3.0-3-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jul 7 12:34:03 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110531.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-06-26 (10 days ago)

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Seems that this issue is fixed in the latest release included in Oneiric, please could you upgrade your system and then check again if this behaviour is still affecting you? Thanks

[Kurt Bruneau (kfb1995)]

Yes, gnome-control-center now detects XF86 keys. However when the hotkeys are used, they either open a different application than which the hotkey was set to, or none at all.

In other words gnome-control-center now senses XF86 keys, but either the configuration files are not being updated or the system is not reading the data from the configuration files correctly.

[Rodrigo Moya (rodrigo-moya)]

Kurt, could you take a screenshot of the g-c-c panel for keybindings with the multimedia keys section selected?

[Joshua V. Dillon (jvdillon)]

"However when the hotkeys are used, they either open a different application than which the hotkey was set to, or none at all."

I can confirm this bug. I have an up-to-date Oneiric installed from a daily build after it went beta. I tried to assign a script to the key event read (correctly) as "KbdBrightnessDown" (also "...Up"). After assignment, pressing this key results in the OSD Notify image being displayed just as it was before assignment and my custom action is not called. I am using the 2011 MacBookAir and in this case trying to have said key run my own brightness script as the default action does nothing.

Here is a screenshot: http://almostsure.com/img/g-c-c.png (although I don't know why anyone would need this).

[Joshua V. Dillon (jvdillon)]

Oh, and to be sure it isn't the failure of my target action, I also tried /bin/true and /usr/bin/xeyes.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

should be sent to GNOME by somebody having the issue

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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