On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 20:22 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: <snip> > Regarding multimedia keys: There is one odd side affect my all this make > multimedia keys work that always confuses me; not sure if it's a small > bug, that's why I'm abusing this discussion for asking if it is. > > I have two machines -- one desktop at work and a notebook at home. > > On the desktop machine with a ordinary keyboard (without multimedia > keys) I configured keyboard shortcuts to mute (Ctrl + Alt + Left), > increase volume (Ctrl + Alt + Up) and decrease volume (Ctrl + Alt + > down) (I think those are the default keyboard shortcuts Gnome used for > this in the old days, but I'm not really sure; doesn't matter much). > > My notebook has multimedia keys (which work, so you have another reason > to be happy). But quite often I try to use the keyboard shortcut on my > notebook as I'm used to them from my machine at work. I of course could > configure my Gnome session to do what I want the machine to do when I > hit the keyboard shortcuts -- but then the multimedia keys won't work > anymore which is also not really ideal :-/ > > Is there any way out of this dilemma? Is it worth filing a bug? If yes: > in Fedora or Gnome ? There's already a bug (which I filed) and a patch :) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494210 You might want to voice your opinion there. I find this a much better idea in terms of UI than allowing binding the same action to 2 keys (which is still possible using the custom keybindings[1]). Cheers [1]: http://live.gnome.org/ControlCenter/CustomKeybindings -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
