Bug 184560

Summary:	Add the ability to associate keystrokes for brightness in/decreasing to gnome-keybinding-properties, for laptops
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Suzanne Hillman <shillman>
Component:	control-center	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	wtogami
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Description Suzanne Hillman 2006-03-09 21:03:02 UTC

Description of problem:
Add the ability to associate keyboard shortcuts for brightness in/decreasing to
gnome-keybinding-properties, for laptops. 

Right now, probably because the keystrokes vary between laptops, unless the
keystroke which is intended to do this talks directly to the hardware, there is
no way that I can see to increase or decrease brightness of laptop displays. If
there were two added effects added to gnome-keybinding-properties which could be
associated with keystrokes, this would no longer be a problem.

I note, of course, that I have no idea if the necessary things to talk to the
hardware to _do_ this exist or are consistent between laptops.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
control-center-2.13.92-2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Find a machine whose brightness level modifiers are a keystroke, which does
not talk to the hardware directly (like the Fujitsu Lifebook)
  
Actual results:
Trying to modify the brightness has no effect, and there is no way to tell the
machine that that is what you expect the key stroke to do.

Expected results:
Should be able to just work, or be able to appropriate associate the keystroke.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Suzanne Hillman 2006-03-21 21:47:25 UTC

Alright. I had no idea that Fn keys generally talk to BIOS or APCI stuff, so
there is unlikely to be anything to do in gnome-keybinding-properties to fix
this. I'll work on a new bug report against the kernel, as that's probably where
the problem is.

Comment 2 Suzanne Hillman 2006-03-22 16:53:47 UTC

Created new bug 186268; closing this one.