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  1. Bug #267682
  2. Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 267682

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: Hotkeys no longer working in Intrepid (evdev?)

I've done some testing here, and it appears that the keyboard behavior for me is very different between my normal user account upgraded from hardy, and a second test account. Both accounts use dvorak as the keymap. On the non-working account, various media keys are mapped wrong unless I run 'setxkbmap -rules evdev' by hand; both before and after running setxkbmap, these media keys generate KeyPress events according to xev. The KeyPress events are not picked up by the relevant apps, however. On the working test account, there are /no/ KeyPress events generated, but the events that are generated (MappingKeyboard events?) are picked up correctly by the applications - all of the XF86AudioPlay, XF86AudioStop, sleep, and lock keys work correctly.

This is on a Thinkpad T60.

I've only tested this using fast-user-switch-applet, so I haven't confirmed yet whether this is a first session/second session issue or if it' s a difference between the configuration of the two accounts. Continuing to investigate.