Bug#524344: gnome-power-manager: adjusting brightness kills AltGr key behaviour

[Norbert Preining]

On Do, 16 Apr 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> This is probably more related to the XKB mapping than to the power
> manager itself.

Yes, but isn't g-p-m the one adjusting the brightness. Anyway, no idea
about that.

> Please show the output of the following:


> 	gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd

 layouts = [de,de	deadgraveacute]
 options = [grp	grp:alts_toggle,Compose key	compose:menu]
 model = pc105

> 	xprop -root | grep XKB

_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "evdev", "pc105", "de",
"deadgraveacute", "lv3:ralt_switch,compose:rwin"
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "evdev", "pc105", "de,de", ",deadgraveacute",
"grp:alts_toggle,compose:menu"


Both are the same pre and post initiating the AltGr failure. So no
change in this area.

> Also, it would be nice to know when this started happening: was it after
> the gnome-settings-daemon upgrade, after the X.org upgrade or after the
> libxklavier upgrade?

Puhhhh ... good question. I will try to find out something.

The problem is that before 2.6.29 recently with patches it was
impossible to initiate the Gnome Power Manager backlight thingy because
the keys weren't supported, i.e., Fn-F5 and Fn-F6 didn't work. That is
only recent work and why I included linux-acpi.

Best wishes

Norbert

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