Comment 45 for bug 188702

Revision history for this message
Chow Loong Jin (hyperair) wrote : Re: [Bug 188702] Re: hardy: multimedia keys no longer work

On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 16:05 +0000, Paul Fisher wrote:
> hyperair wrote, On 12/11/08 10:36 AM:
> > xev should show something like this in the event of gsd actually
> > capturing your keys:
> > KeymapNotify event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
> > keys: 123 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> > 0
> > 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> > 0
> >
> > Otherwise it isn't.
>
> Right. The following is the output from xev:
>
> > KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x5000001,
> > root 0x6e, subw 0x0, time 660660, (537,100), root:(549,212),
> > state 0x10, keycode 172 (keysym 0x1008ff14, XF86AudioPlay), same_screen YES,
> > XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 162
> > XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
> > XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
> > XFilterEvent returns: False
> >
> > KeyRelease event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x5000001,
> > root 0x6e, subw 0x0, time 660732, (537,100), root:(549,212),
> > state 0x10, keycode 172 (keysym 0x1008ff14, XF86AudioPlay), same_screen YES,
> > XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 162
> > XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
> > XFilterEvent returns: False
> D-Bus is silent.
>
Reconfigure Keyboard Shortcuts. Things might have changed from Hardy.
gsd isn't picking up your key at all.
--
Chow Loong Jin