Evince goes full screen when pressing play on keyboard

[Eviltechie]

Binary package hint: evince

I've got a keyboard that has buttons for volume, next/previous tracks, play/pause/ stop, and mute. (Saitek Eclipse 2) Totem interprets me pressing play/pause, and pauses the music, but evince takes the play/pause button and goes fullscreen.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

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[Eviltechie (eviltechie)]

I use Ubuntu 8.10.

To reproduce this bug, you should get a keyboard with media buttons on it, and press the play/pause button while evince is in focus.

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

setting back to new

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is bug #263779 and the change is in jaunty

[Dana Goyette (danagoyette)]

I disagree with marking this as duplicate: this bug is about the going fullscreen on "play"; the other bug was about it BLOCKING the play button from reaching the media player. It may be true that it no longer blocks the keys from reaching other applications.... but evince DOES still rather extremely annoyingly go full-sceen when you try to play or pause the music. It also skips around in slides when you try to change tracks in the music player.

[Eviltechie (eviltechie)]

Also, I don't think this bug is fixed. I still have this problem in jaunty.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 21:26 +0000, Dana Goyette wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 263779 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263779
>
> I disagree with marking this as duplicate: this bug is about the going
> fullscreen on "play"; the other bug was about it BLOCKING the play
> button from reaching the media player. It may be true that it no longer
> blocks the keys from reaching other applications.... but evince DOES
> still rather extremely annoyingly go full-sceen when you try to play or
> pause the music. It also skips around in slides when you try to change
> tracks in the music player.
>
Right, and exactly what's wrong with that? I think it's a nice feature,
as long as it doesn't block my media players when they're active and
should be the ones responding to the media keys instead of Evince. And
it doesn't any more, since that other bug is fixed (and by the way, it
was a gnome-settings-daemon bug exposed by Evince's behaviour).
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Regards,
Chow Loong Jin

[Dana Goyette (danagoyette)]

The thing is, it's not "instead of Evince" -- I get BOTH actions happening. The media player (in this case, quodlibet) pauses or resumes, AND evince takes over the whole screen! If I'm trying to work on something that involves referring to a PDF as well as working on another computer, evince's behavior gets in the way. Same thing happens with skipping tracks... try reading a PDF document while listening a music, and hit "skip" -- you'll randomly find yourself on the wrong page of the document.

[Dana Goyette (danagoyette)]

er, another application, not "another computer" -- curse the lack of edit function.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 02:07 +0000, Dana Goyette wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 263779 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263779
>
> The thing is, it's not "instead of Evince" -- I get BOTH actions
> happening. The media player (in this case, quodlibet) pauses or
> resumes, AND evince takes over the whole screen! If I'm trying to work
> on something that involves referring to a PDF as well as working on
> another computer, evince's behavior gets in the way. Same thing happens
> with skipping tracks... try reading a PDF document while listening a
> music, and hit "skip" -- you'll randomly find yourself on the wrong page
> of the document.
>
This I cannot reproduce. Please post the versions of
gnome-settings-daemon, evince, and quodlibet respectively please. It can
be determined by:
$ dpkg -l gnome-settings-daemon evince quodlibet
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Regards,
Chow Loong Jin

[Dana Goyette (danagoyette)]

ii evince 2.26.1-0ubuntu
ii gnome-settings 2.26.1-0ubuntu
ii quodlibet 2.0-1ubuntu2

Also note that, because my laptop lacks true media control keys, I have play/pause, previous, next, and stop bound to ctrl-alt-{home,pgup,pgdn,end}, respectively. Perhaps Evince is hooking more specifically into those keys, or something.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 17:31 +0000, Dana Goyette wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 263779 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263779
>
> ii evince 2.26.1-0ubuntu
> ii gnome-settings 2.26.1-0ubuntu
> ii quodlibet 2.0-1ubuntu2
>
> Also note that, because my laptop lacks true media control keys, I have
> play/pause, previous, next, and stop bound to ctrl-
> alt-{home,pgup,pgdn,end}, respectively. Perhaps Evince is hooking more
> specifically into those keys, or something.
>
No, I don't think that's an issue. gsd would hijack it away from any
application listening for those keys. Try changing it, all the same.
Also, try with another media player.
--
Regards,
Chow Loong Jin