Ubuntu
x11proto-core package

  1. Precise (12.04)
  2. Bug #408903
  3. Comment #92

Comment 92 for bug 408903

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In , James M. Leddy (jm-leddy) wrote :

(In reply to comment #1)
> Currently symbols/inet(evdev) is used for all keyboards, so all of them
> would use F20 for micmute. I am not very happy about that...

This doesn't really make sense. Yes, today symbols/inet is used for all keyboards, but FK20 (code 198) is not mapped to _anything_. If you actually have a keyboard with an F20 key, it'll be remapped by the vendor specific keyboard map anyway (eg digital_vndr/lk).

A quick grep reveals that only 3 keyboards even use this key: a VT105, an ancient DEC keyboard that also requires a special driver, and a fujitsu keyboard that I can't find any mention of online.

The other approach if people are really big on keeping F20 functionality around is to map FK20 to F20, and leave gnome-settings-daemon as it is. This has the downside of making XF86AudioMicMute irrelevent.