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gnome-settings-daemon package

  1. Bug #1248368
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 1248368

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Russell King (rmk+ubuntu) wrote :

I also have this problem with Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS. I have just down-graded gnome-settings-daemon to 3.4.1-0ubuntu1 (the only other version apt-cache showed me) and restarted, and this has fixed the issue. Volume up/down/mute all fail to work with 3.4.2-0ubuntu0.6.6 - these keys appear ignored (though a terminal loses focus when they're pressed.)

Comment #8 requested information by running gnome-settings-daemon in debug mode using "gnome-settings-daemon --debug --replace" - with the above version, I get "** (gnome-settings-daemon:6486): WARNING **: Unknown option --replace
". I tried some other approaches, and finally got it running in debug mode.

When I press the media keys, I get:

(gnome-settings-daemon:7320): media-keys-plugin-DEBUG: Launching action for key type '4' (on device id 7)
(gnome-settings-daemon:7320): media-keys-plugin-DEBUG: Launching action for key type '5' (on device id 7)
(gnome-settings-daemon:7320): media-keys-plugin-DEBUG: Launching action for key type '3' (on device id 7)

So it seems to be detecting the key presses - but still, nothing happens.