Chris, regarding your statement about g-s-d being the wrong place, I
initially tended to agree.  But after talking with pitti, it appears the
Linux input stack is not meant to be able to 'merge' keypresses like
Super_L+p into a different press.  It's only really good at translating
one press into another.  So the ideal solution (udev mapping) seems not
workable.

So we have to do it in desktop-space.  Then, my gut reaction is to add
an entry to the GNOME Keybindings screen that defaults to Mod4+p for
switching video mode, because hardcoding a keybinding in g-s-d that
normally would be available for users to use seems bad.  But... this is
a BIOS hardcoded key press.  Allowing the user to change 'video-switch'
to a different key would just be letting the user break their 'display'
keyboard key.  Seems like it should be at least as hardcoded as the
previous VIDEOSWITCHMODE presses were.

So that led me to the g-s-d patch you see above.

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Video out hot key sends super + p + return on many upcoming Dell & HP systems
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/539477
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