[Mageia-dev] gnome: trouble with keyboard shortcut

Tue Nov 29 18:30:21 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 29/11/11 11:53 did gyre and gimble:
+> '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)
+
+Phew! That was a bit of a fight in the end with several .la file related
+build problems but it's there now.
+
+Col
+
+
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