GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 148969
problems with keyboard shortcuts for sound ("next track", "play/pause", etc.)
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
1. Go to GNOME menu: Applications >> Desktop Preferences >> Keyboard Shortcuts 2. When the configuration window comes up, go to the "Sound" section in the tree view. 3. Click on the line with "Skip to Next track". Press "WinKey+Z" for the shortcut. 4. The entry now shows "<Mod4>z" 5. Close the configuration window. 6. Every time I hit 'Z' (whether I use the WinKey or not), it goes to the next track (I'm testing this on XMMS with the XMMS-XF86Audio plugin). 7. I can't type the letter 'Z' anymore. It always runs the shortcut. If I disable the shortcut, I still don't get to use the 'Z' key (even though it no longer goes to the next track). --- When I set the shortcut to "WinKey+Z", the entry displays "<Mod4>z". The second time I do it, it shows "<Mod4>XF86AudioNext". The third time I do it, it shows "<Mod4>0x34". After that, it keeps alternating between "<Mod4>XF86AudioNext" and "<Mod4>0x34". This also happens with Ctrl and Alt, not just with WinKey. This happens with all the "Sound" actions, but not with some other actions I've tried, like "Home Folder". --- My keyboard is a PS/2 keyboard. It doesn't have "multimedia keys." I'm using XFree86 4.3.0. My config file has: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection
This behaviour is reproducible under ubuntu linux 4.10 (gnome 2.8)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 133815 ***