Cannot change volume with keyboard volume dial while in drop down menu.

[dinowarecomputers]

When i am in a drop down menu i can not change the volume via my keyboard volume control dial. This is not very important but if anyone has 8 seconds to fix it that'd be cool. I have the newest intrepid as of october 19th 2008

[Mean-Machine (mdanielski)]

I can confirm this bug in ubuntu 8.10.

[Dariel Dato-on (odd-rationale)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551163

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

i'm marking some dupes from this bug report (odd-rationale couldn't do it because the LP lag)

[Charles Profitt (cprofitt)]

Here are the files requested in the troubleshooting details from the wiki. Thanks for finding the duplicate Andres - I could not find it yesterday at the bug jam.

[Charles Profitt (cprofitt)]

Also, the problem does not happen when I attempt to duplicate this bug and the mute button is not recognized (ie: it works, but does not get the OSD for mute). On a later report of this I noted that this appears to have something to do with events being recognized. (xserver-xorg-input-evdev).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

gtk grabs keyboard events to get menus working that's not a bug

[Charles Profitt (cprofitt)]

I disagree with Sebastien for two reasons:

1. The behavior is not consistent between models of computers. The T42p behaved differently than the T60p; if GTK is designed to grab all keyboard events when a menu is opened then the results would be consistent.
2. If GTK is designed to handle keyboard events while a menu is open then this should be changed to a wishlist. I tested this functionality on Windows XP, Vista and OS X and the volume control - multimedia buttons all work when menus are opened.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

don't reopen this bug that's a duplicate

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

those button probably work on some laptop because the action is an hardware one and not a sotware one

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

I'm reopening a task with evdev.

Also it could be a good idea to explore the current plans for reorganizing hotkeys,
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hotkeys

And probably will need to debug this according to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hotkeys/Troubleshooting

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

Take into account that logs uploaded by Charles are those in the Hotkeys Troubleshooting guide

[bbordwell (benbordwell)]

I can confirm this bug in 9.10 beta, all extra keys do not work (volue, calculator, ect) while in a drop down menu.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

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Hi dinowarecomputers,

This bug was reported against an earlier version of Ubuntu, can you
test if it still occurs on Lucid?

Please note we also provide technical support for older versions of
Ubuntu, but not in the bug tracker. Instead, to raise the issue through
normal support channels, please see:

    http://www.ubuntu.com/support

If you are the original reporter and can still reproduce the issue on
Lucid, please run the following command to refresh the report:

  apport-collect 286050

If you are not the original reporter, please file a new bug report, so
we can work with you as the original reporter instead (you can reference
bug 286050 in your report if you think it may be related):

  ubuntu-bug xorg

If by chance you can no longer reproduce the issue on Lucid or if you
feel it is no longer relevant, please mark the bug report 'Fix Released'
or 'Invalid' as appropriate, at the following URL:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/286050

[Sancho Panza (prashanthr-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

I confirm this bug on Lucid running on Thinkpad T61. This bug did exist on Karmic also.
Let me know if you need more information. I'm not an expert with the command line fyi.

Cheers,

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

[Resetting to incomplete since we need a response from the original reporter on this].

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is not an xorg input one