"Presentation mode" key on HP laptop should start LibreOffice/ OpenOffice Impress

[Martijn vdS]

Currently, the Presentation Mode key doesn't do anything useful (except for
generating an event). I think the best "standard" action would be starting the
default presentation program.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

What does this key do under Windows?

[Martijn vdS (martijn)]

It sets the power mode to "Presentation", and gives me a configuration screen
(which feels like a "You don't have powerpoint, shame on you" dialog).

[Matthew Garrett (mjg59)]

Seb, any hope of being able to add an entry to the keyboard shortcuts for this?

[Jani Monoses (jani)]

hmm recently on the same laptop the (i) button no longer runs gnome help. It
worked in preview. I can open a new bug for this if Martijn confirms it

[Martijn vdS (martijn)]

Hey, you're right, (i) doesn't run anything anymore

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

There is some discussion upstream about the default apps (calculator, player,
...) and the keys to start them:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300514
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165031

Listing all the kind of apps will make a long dialog which is not optimal...

[Karianne Fog Heen (simira)]

On nc8230, I use the presentation hotkey to change to an external monitor. Nice
feature.

[Thomas Hood (jdthood)]

Created an attachment (id=4689)
Backtrace of crashed ooimpress2 process

[Thomas Hood (jdthood)]

(In reply to comment #8)
> Created an attachment (id=4689) [edit]
> Backtrace of crashed ooimpress2 process

Sorry, attached to wrong bug report.

[Luka Renko (lure)]

Key also does nothing for Kubuntu (tested on Breezy and Dapper Flight 2).
See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/HPNW8240/Kubuntu

[Luka Renko (lure)]

There is a bug submitted to freedesktop.org for adding new keysyms for this key:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3884

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

Confirmed on HP Compaq NX 6120.

In Windows Xp I got a configuration dialog where I configured it to start OOo impress.

[martinlanghoff (martin-langhoff)]

Confirmed here on an HP/Compaq 6710b

 - (i) key used to open gnome help on Edgy, is dead on Gutsty (as of today)

 - presentation/projector key does nothing, but as I use xrandr to run various dual-head modes (on, off, mirrored, ext VGA on the left, ext VGA on the right) I think the *best* use of this key is to rotate the xrandr modes. Specially important when you cannot do it from a gui because most of your desktop was in the VGA monitor/projector _just_ disconnected.

Keycodes seen

(i) key
 atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (raw set 2, code 0x8f on isa0060/serio0).
 atkbd.c: Unknown key released (raw set 2, code 0x8f on isa0060/serio0).

presentation-mode key
 atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (raw set 2, code 0xbd on isa0060/serio0).
 atkbd.c: Unknown key released (raw set 2, code 0xbd on isa0060/serio0).

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

This seems to be a request for a desktop-level keymapping, not a problem with the hotkey failing to generate an event. Reassigning to the desktop stack.

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

Can you still reproduce this bug with your laptop? Thank you for telling us!

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

Closing because of no answer of the author. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can test it with a current Ubuntu version. Thank you very much for reporting this bug!