Hello Bastien, Bastien Nocera [2010-11-05 0:00 +0000]: > The patches in https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31300 > implement this for the kernel, and for X.org. > > Then we have the problem that udev's keymaps seem to use different > function keys depending on the hardware [1], when X.org (because of the > limitations of XKB) standardised on F22 for "XF86TouchpadToggle". Thanks for bringing this up, indeed there's some cleanup in order here. > So we'll need to standardise on the keys used. I selected F21 for > XF86TouchpadToggle, F22 for XF86TouchpadOn and F23 for XF86TouchpadOff. > See the patch in: > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31333 > > The remaining fixes would need to be in udev's keymaps, to set hardware > handled keys to F22 and F23, and software ones to F21. Patch is attached > for that. Indeed the maps which don't currently use f22 should be fixed, regardless of what happens in X/kernel/userspace. My main concern is that F22 has acted as touchpad toggle key for years (many of those were imported from hal-info originally), so if we change everything to f21 now without updating userspace (things like gnome-settings-daemon) in lockstep, then we break existing functionality. It would look slightly weird, but perhaps it might be better to keep using F22 for toggling, and F1->on, F23->off? Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)
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