Bug 184541
| Summary: | Some Acer Aspire 3002CLi key strokes don't seem to be noticed by X | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Suzanne Hillman <shillman> |
| Component: | xorg-x11 | Assignee: | X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint> |
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | kernel-maint |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Desktop |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-06-14 17:06:21 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 183415 | ||
Oops, sorry. It does appear to hear the <fn> f1-3 keys, even though they don't show up as seen in xev. I checked using the keyboard shortcuts tool, and they're seen. The other four, however, are not seen when trying to set keyboard shortcuts. Wondering, though, if there's some other tool I should be using to see if keys are noticed by X, if xev doesn't necessarily notice them? Finally, and I'm not entirely sure if this is something that's reasonable to expect to work, there is a <alt gr> key (in the place of the right <alt> key), which is apparently heard as <alt_R> by the keyboard shortcuts tool, and which is supposed to be able to combine with another key (5) to create the Euro symbol. I think that's the only key which uses the alt gr key, and if we get the key which is near the arrow keys and _only_ handles that working, it may not matter. Please file a bug report in the X.Org bugzilla located at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xkeyboard-config" component for this issue. Once you've filed your bug report to X.Org, if you paste the new bug URL here, Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the centralized X.Org bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration in future updates. Setting status to "NEEDINFO_REPORTER", and awaiting upstream bug report URL for tracking. Thanks in advance. As far as comment #2, it looks like it is something that can be done using configuration of the keyboard layout, since the alt gr key is seen, but it's _very_ manual. It's some combination of defining which key should be used to be able to create the Euro symbol, and defining which key to use in order to trigger it. It relates not at all to the fact that it's actually labeled as such on the keyboard. So... it _works_, with much configuration, but it'd seem to be the kind of thing that we want to happen automatically, if possible. Tracking in upstream bugzilla now. |
Description of problem: Some Acer Aspire 3002CLi key strokes don't seem to be noticed by X, presumably because they are specific to this laptop. I tested using xev to see if they were just not being understood, or if they really were totally not being caught. The latter appears to be the case. The keys are: Up at the top near the caps keys indicators, web and email buttons (which do work), and power button, a user-programmable one ('p'), and one which is intended to work with Acer eManager (presumably a Windows app) but which is also user-programmable (cursive 'e'). Near the arrow keys, the dollar sign (not sure why they thought we needed another way to make a dollar sign, but whatever) and the euro symbol. The <Fn> <F1>, <Fn> <F2>, and <Fn> <F3> all seem to not be noticed. <Fn> for F4-F7 are also not seen, according to xev, but they appear to all go directly to hardware so it likely doesn't matter. <Fn> <F8> seems to work fine, if one associates it using the keyboard shortcuts utility. This may be better labeled as an enhancement request; not sure. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): (Not completely sure which xorg.x11-foo version you need; giving the server, for now.) xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.0.1-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install yesterday's rawhide onto an Acer Aspire 3002CLi 2. Log into X. 3. Start xev, and see if these keys are noticed. Actual results: Not noticed by xev (I actually realized this when they were not showing up when trying to associate via keyboard shortcuts) Expected results: Should be recognized by X. Additional info: