GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 135476
Setting a key combination doesn't work multimedia keys
Last modified: 2006-01-11 13:55:40 UTC
Setting for example Alt-F2 for "Play" doesn't work. Using a key like Print Screen does work, though ..
Indeed.
Doesn't this defeat the whole point of having merged these bits in?
No, it's only a problem for the keys that we bind to keysyms ourselves, like Play, Pause, Stop. This doesn't affect key bindings that g-s-d handles itself, like volume, and this sort of thing. It didn't work before, so it's rather low priority.
Why is this a problem ? What needs to be extended to support things properly ?
We need to parse the keybindings a bit better when setting up new keysyms, and unset them correctly. It's a bit of work, but for me it's clearly something that would go in 2.8.
not sure if that's the same bug but the opposite situation seems to doesn't work neither. ie: bug #144223 where the submitter try to use the volume keys to switch workspace. is it a dup ?
*** Bug 171142 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Still broken? blah. tentatively marking 2.12- embarassing this has been broken this long :/
Keysym <-> keycode binding is being removed, in favour of better updated layouts. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 133815 ***