[Mageia-dev] gnome: trouble with keyboard shortcut

Tue Nov 29 12:53:39 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 29/11/11 11:43 did gyre and gimble:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Guillaume Rousse at 29/11/11 09:57 did gyre and gimble:
+>> Since last week, multimedia keys seems to be ignored under gnome: no
+>> more OSD display, and no more effect on mixer. The same is true for
+>> other keyboard shortcut: ctrl+alt+l, which is supposed to lock screen,
+>> doesn't work either.
+>>
+>> Everything works fine under XFCE.
+>>
+>> I have no clue about which component to report the issue against in
+> 
+> gnome-settings-daemon handles multimedia keys etc.
+> 
+> I can confirm here the same problem, but some shortcuts do work (e.g.
+> alt+f2), so it must only be the shortcuts g-s-d handles.
+> 
+> I can confirm that g-s-d is communicating with PulseAudio (pacmd
+> list-clients shows gnome-settings-daemon there), so I presume the
+> problem is just in the keyboard handling side of it).
+
+OK, spoke with Bastien and he pointed me at the fixes (on the Xserver side).
+
+Will push them through shortly (tho' to the xserver 1.11 in
+core/updates_testing only)
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+Col
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