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:
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.
Created new bug 186268; closing this one.