This is still happening on 12.04 LTS. I just love how these things expire without getting looked into!
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/527102 Title: Brightness control key types "±" character Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: On my laptop, when I use the brightness up fn key, in addition to increasing the brightness, it also types the character "±" into whatever application has focus. This is happening on Karmic. I am not certain which packages are involved. --- Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 GnomeSessionIdleInhibited: No GnomeSessionInhibitors: None GnomeSessionSuspendInhibited: No InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027) Lsusb: Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 064e:a103 Suyin Corp. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Package: gnome-power-manager 2.30.0-0ubuntu1 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-generic root=UUID=703dd9bf-fa47-479e-bc43-937daca45927 ro quiet splash ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.42-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5 Tags: lucid Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64 UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare dmi.bios.date: 09/30/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: eMachines dmi.bios.version: V1.03 dmi.board.name: Nile dmi.board.vendor: eMachines dmi.board.version: N/A dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: eMachines dmi.chassis.version: N/A dmi.modalias: dmi:bvneMachines:bvrV1.03:bd09/30/2008:svn:pn:pvrV1.03:rvneMachines:rnNile:rvrN/A:cvneMachines:ct10:cvrN/A: dmi.product.version: V1.03 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/527102/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
