** Description changed:
Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon
It appears that machines that have a software eject key are not able to
eject disks from gnome. In evaluating the cause of the problem, a lot
- of possible indicators show up. At a first glance it seems to be an X
- bug because pressing the key mapped to XF86Eject shows this output in
- xev:
-
- <jcristau> state 0x0, keycode 170 (keysym 0x1008ff2c, XF86Eject),
same_screen YES,
- <jcristau> XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 169
-
- This is actually the intended behavior though because there are indeed two
keysyms that match:
- <jcristau> key <I169> { [ XF86Eject ] };
- <jcristau> key <I170> { [ XF86Eject, XF86Eject ] };
-
- There are two keysyms that match because the kernel supports two different
eject keys that act very similarly:
- <jcristau> correspond to the following in the kernel:
- <jcristau> #define KEY_EJECTCD 161
- <jcristau> #define KEY_EJECTCLOSECD 162
+ of possible indicators show up.
Gnome-settings-daemon gets confused then because the keycode you press
in X is not the keycode it is expecting since it uses XKeysymToKeycode.
+
+ =-----------=
+
+ Impact:
+ Any users that have non CD/DVD hardware eject keys are impacted.
+
+ Addressed:
+ All development of this patch was done with myself and upstream. Upstream
has added the patch to trunk.
+
+ Regression Potential:
+ Users need to verify that their hotkeys that worked will still work. This
code is very core to the design of how the keys get bound. On the flip side,
It's quite possible that other hotkeys (such as Play/Pause) didn't work before
either and will be fixed by this too. Eject is just the most obvious key.
+
+ Test Case:
+ 1) Install an Ubuntu 8.10 system
+ 2) Verify that at least one hotkey doesn't behave as expected when bound
(such as Eject).
+ 3) Verify in 'xev' that a keypress shows the keycode and that it isn't
grabbed by any application.
+ 4) Install the proposed package
+ 5) Log out and back into your session
+ 6) Verify that same key now works.
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eject key doesn't work when disks are mounted
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/299194
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