Just tried xubuntu 13.10 on the same laptop, keeping 12.10 on its partition to 
boot on one or another as will.
Xubuntu 13.10 is freshly installed, not much customized but updates applied and 
rebooted.

Kernel is 3.11.0-12-generic .

lsb_release -rd

Description:    Ubuntu 13.10
Release:        13.10


On xubuntu 13.10, things that worked still work (hotkeys, etc), things
that were unusual did as on 12.10 (e.g. Fn-F7). The good news is that
Fn-F5 and Fn-F6 changed.

The following misbehavior that were true on 12.10 have changed:

> * pressing Fn-F5 and Fn-F6 *does not* show on-screen notification ->
minor

Now there *is* an on-screen notification.

> Fn-F5 (brightness down) cause no event seen by xev

Now it causes this:

MappingNotify event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    request MappingKeyboard, first_keycode 8, count 248

FocusOut event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x3400001,
    mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor

FocusOut event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x3400001,
    mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyPointer

FocusIn event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x3400001,
    mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor

KeymapNotify event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    keys:  74  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   
           0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   

RRNotify event, serial 38, synthetic NO, window 0x3400001,
    subtype XRROutputPropertyChangeNotifyEvent
    output LVDS1, property Backlight, timestamp 848645, state NewValue


> Fn-F6 (brightness up) cause no event seen by xev 

Now it causes this:

FocusOut event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x3400001,
    mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor

FocusOut event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x3400001,
    mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyPointer

FocusIn event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x3400001,
    mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor

KeymapNotify event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    keys:  1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   
           0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   

RRNotify event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x3400001,
    subtype XRROutputPropertyChangeNotifyEvent
    output LVDS1, property Backlight, timestamp 853274, state NewValue



Just in case this difference in behavior could be due to a different set of 
installed packages, here is the an output on the working Xubuntu 13.10:

LC_ALL=C dpkg -l '*power*'

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                    Version          Architecture     Description
+++-=======================-================-================-===================================================
un  gnome-power-manager     <none>                            (no description 
available)
ii  libupower-glib1:amd64   0.9.22-1ubuntu2  amd64            abstraction for 
power management - shared library
un  pm-utils-powersave-poli <none>                            (no description 
available)
ii  powermgmt-base          1.31build1       amd64            Common utils and 
configs for power management
ii  upower                  0.9.22-1ubuntu2  amd64            abstraction for 
power management
ii  xfce4-power-manager     1.2.0-2ubuntu1   amd64            power manager for 
Xfce desktop
ii  xfce4-power-manager-dat 1.2.0-2ubuntu1   all              power manager for 
Xfce desktop, arch-indep files
un  xfce4-power-manager-plu <none>                            (no description 
available)


Here is the same output on the failing Ubuntu 12.10:

LC_ALL=C dpkg -l '*power*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                    Version          Architecture     Description
+++-=======================-================-================-===================================================
ii  gnome-power-manager     3.6.0-0ubuntu1   amd64            power management 
tool for the GNOME desktop
ii  indicator-power         12.10.2-0ubuntu1 amd64            Indicator showing 
power state.
ii  libupower-glib1         0.9.17-1build1   amd64            abstraction for 
power management - shared library
un  pm-utils-powersave-poli <none>                            (no description 
available)
ii  powermgmt-base          1.31build1       amd64            Common utils and 
configs for power management
ii  upower                  0.9.17-1build1   amd64            abstraction for 
power management
ii  xfce4-power-manager     1.2.0-1ubuntu1.1 amd64            power manager for 
Xfce desktop
ii  xfce4-power-manager-dat 1.2.0-1ubuntu1.1 all              power manager for 
Xfce desktop, arch-indep files
un  xfce4-power-manager-plu <none>                            (no description 
available)

As you can see, the only difference is gnome-power-manager installed.


Regards,

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