[Bug 293213] Re: k-d-s applies incorrect xmodmap that breaks macbook brightness keys

[John Dong]

Even worse, I don't even know how to properly categorize this horrific
brokenness, maybe an experienced QT4 soul can handle this:

Qt4 doesn't even capture the XF86MonBrightness* keys -- to the keyboard
shortcut applet they don't exist (i.e. you can't grab those keys as
shortcuts) -- the Qt4::Keys_* items don't exist for those keysyms
either.

In addition, Kubuntu uses nonstandard hackish mappings XF86Launch4 and
XF86Launch5 in Guidance for the other set of common brightness keys
(mapped in xmodmap), and those are actually in Qt Key_Launch6 and
Key_Launch7??

Something really weird and wacky is going on in the handling of
brightness keys all the way down to the QT stack which, to this GNOME
user, looks like resulted in a large stack of hacks to get to where we
are today. IMO this needs to be fixed at the Qt level to recognize the
XF86MonBrightness{Up,Down} keys properly, so that we can stop using
Xmodmap hacks that incidentally don't seem to work!

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k-d-s applies incorrect xmodmap that breaks macbook brightness keys
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293213
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