| igorzolnikov | Hi! I want to buy Sony VGN FZ21. It is good a choice for Ubuntu? | 08:15 |
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| ianbsparrow | hello | 14:44 |
| ianbsparrow | I'm searching info about how the function keys work on ubuntu. | 14:45 |
| ianbsparrow | which is the application which manages the events raised by the function keys? | 14:45 |
| realz` | how they work or how to configure them? | 14:45 |
| ianbsparrow | how do they work, thus: how do the event pass from the function key press towards the appropriate device | 14:46 |
| ianbsparrow | and which are the actors of the process. | 14:47 |
| realz` | what is it that you are tryint to do? | 14:48 |
| ianbsparrow | i'm trying to use them. from the brightness, towards the lock session | 14:48 |
| realz` | from the brightness, towards the lock session...didnt get you! | 14:49 |
| ianbsparrow | i mean: no function key works, on my keyboard. so I would like to have them working. | 14:50 |
| realz` | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultimediaKeys | 14:51 |
| ianbsparrow | k, that's a good entry point. | 14:52 |
| ianbsparrow | mh, I've got another question: some keys are not shown in xev, when I press them. but they're however binded to some event, because they raise some windows (ie. the brightness keys) | 15:09 |
| ianbsparrow | ( or the suspend to RAM/disk ones) | 15:09 |
| ianbsparrow | going to a real console, I cannot see any message from the atkbd.c code. so I don't know which symbol is linked to each key. | 15:09 |
| ianbsparrow | I also suppose that they're currently managed by some actor, but I cannot guess who. | 15:09 |
| realz` | check dmesg | 15:10 |
| realz` | u say that xev doesnt read your keypress? | 15:11 |
| ianbsparrow | no luck. it doesnt print any info. yeah, that's it. no trace on xev | 15:11 |
| ianbsparrow | no trace at all. | 15:11 |
| ianbsparrow | it's like I haven't had that key. | 15:11 |
| realz` | ask me...i got about 5 keys like that :p | 15:13 |
| ianbsparrow | we are lucky, indeed. :-) | 15:14 |
| realz` | what is your laptop brand model & version of ubuntu? | 15:14 |
| realz` | is it updated to the date? | 15:14 |
| ianbsparrow | I have discovered another thing. some fn+key shortcuts are mapped onto existing keys on the keyboard | 15:15 |
| ianbsparrow | 7.10 | 15:16 |
| ianbsparrow | toshiba L40 | 15:16 |
| realz` | so what's ur normal keys to adjust lets say contrast? | 15:16 |
| ianbsparrow | I have no contrast keys. only the brightness ones. but in that case, they're mapped to a keysim. | 15:21 |
| ianbsparrow | instead, I haven't the keys from F2 to F5 | 15:21 |
| ianbsparrow | and F8,F9 | 15:22 |
| realz` | what happens if u press fn+f6? | 15:22 |
| ianbsparrow | a small box appears, with a sun inside :-) gnome-brightness-applet, I guess | 15:22 |
| realz` | but it adjusted ur brightness ? | 15:22 |
| ianbsparrow | oh, I forgot F1, which coincides with Super_L. no, the gnome-brightness-applet is dumb, apparently | 15:23 |
| ianbsparrow | (it doesn't propagate the info to the underlaying software layer) | 15:23 |
| realz` | so Fn+F1 doesnt perfor scren lock? | 15:23 |
| realz` | s/perfor/perform | 15:24 |
| ianbsparrow | no. at least, until I do not map Super_L to screen lock | 15:24 |
| ianbsparrow | :-) | 15:24 |
| realz` | ok | 15:24 |
| realz` | sorry i got somewhat lost here...what exactly is not working now on your laptop? | 15:25 |
| ianbsparrow | all the function keys. except for the brightness ones, which are detected by the gnome-brightness-applet. but they do not effectively change the brightness | 15:26 |
| ianbsparrow | well, re, I'm going. thank you for the help, and have a good luck for your ones. :-) | 15:27 |
| realz` | i've given up on them! :P | 15:27 |
| realz` | anyway cheers | 15:27 |
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