Bug 196350

Summary: gnome-keybinding-properties doesn't work with Thinkpad back/forward buttons
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Zack Cerza <zcerza>
Component: control-centerAssignee: Control Center Maintainer <control-center-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 8CC: bnocera, tim, triage, wtogami
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Description Zack Cerza 2006-06-22 17:54:22 UTC
Description of problem:
I'm trying to get my Thinkpad's back/forward buttons to switch workspaces. I can
set "Switch to workspace on the {left,right}" - they get set to 0xea and 0xe9
respectively, but when I try to use those keys, nothing actually happens.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
control-center-2.14.2-1

How reproducible:
Always

Additional info:
xev says the back key is keycode 234, and the forward keycode is 233.

Comment 1 Zack Cerza 2006-06-22 18:00:32 UTC
Also, Fn+F3 is supposed to lock my screen. It doesn't. :(

Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2007-02-15 11:34:08 UTC
Metacity doesn't know how to handle keys without keysyms. Would need fixing
upstream...

Comment 3 Tim Niemueller 2007-05-28 22:21:42 UTC
I have put this into /etc/X11/Xmodmap:

keycode 234 = XF86Back
keycode 233 = XF86Forward
keycode 162 = XF86AudioPlay
keycode 164 = XF86AudioStop
keycode 153 = XF86AudioNext
keycode 144 = XF86AudioPrev
keycode 227 = XF86LaunchF
keycode 249 = XF86ZoomIn

Additionally to the back and forth buttons this also assigns keysyms to some
Fn-key combinations (Fn+arrow keys, holding Fn key, Fn+Space). This is the
keymap I use on my Thinkpad T60.

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-04-03 17:30:16 UTC
Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported
against rawhide during the development of a Fedora release that is no
longer maintained. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are
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Comment 5 Tim Niemueller 2008-04-04 08:47:59 UTC
I still need the mentioned workaround on F-8.

Comment 6 Zack Cerza 2008-04-04 14:54:36 UTC
In rawhide, the keys are XF86Back and XF86Forward. They can be mapped normally.
In addition, Firefox 3 by default uses them for back/forward. This requires no
mapping.

Based on comment #5 I am moving this to F8.

Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 06:59:33 UTC
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Comment 8 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 04:34:16 UTC
Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
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