Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 184449
Pressing the browser button on an Acer Aspire 3002LCi causes the current battery state indicator to appear
Last modified: 2013-03-13 00:50:15 EDT
Description of problem: Pressing the browser button on an Acer Aspire 3002LCi causes the current battery state indicator (from libnotify, I believe) to appear. (It also starts the browser, if appropriately assigned via the gnome-keybinding-properties tool.) This is especially interesting as - before I pressed that button the first time - libnotify was not telling me about the battery state change when I unplugged or plugged the AC power in, but does now. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libnotify-0.3.0-5 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have FC5 installed on an Acer Aspire 3002LCi (we have one in Desktop QA) 2. Press the Browser button Actual results: A message from the battery indicator shows up, saying "Power Information. Computer is running on AC power. Laptop battery fully charged (100%)" - likely changes if one isn't on AC power, of course. Expected results: Should just call the associated action, if there is one, and not do anything relating to the battery state. Additional info:
Wierd. Most likely an event triggered by the button is being picked up by gnome-power-manager.
The button, at least according to the keyboard shortcuts screen after I associated it with the browser, is 0xb2.
By design, added by Ubuntu, in retrospect maybe a bad decision: #define GPM_BUTTON_BRIGHT_UP "brightness-up" #define GPM_BUTTON_BRIGHT_DOWN "brightness-down" #define GPM_BUTTON_LOCK "lock" /* Using www until we get a better one defined for us by the kernel */ #define GPM_BUTTON_BATTERY "www" Got any ideas of a better key to use?
Ya, none by default. It doesn't seem all that useful, in fact it seems like a bug when a button does something that is totally unrelated. "Lets make the big smile face the one that launches the missles because we don't have a big red button" :-). We should export these options to the Keyboard Shortcuts capplet and if someone wants to they would be able to assign "www" to GPM_BUTTON_BATTERY.
2006-03-22 Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com> * src/gpm-manager.c: Use the button "battery" rather than "www" to show the battery status. This depends on mjg59's kernel addition and the use of a HAL with the new button patched in.
This should be fixed with yesterdays gnome-power-manager update, please confirm.
Looks fixed, thanks!