This is not fixed. The issue with multiple keypresses generated by the Dell XPS M1330's media keys is a hardware problem with the Dell laptop, and it is not fixed. The media keys (volume adjustment, play/pause, stop, next, prev) on the M1330 are touch-sensitive keys placed in a row above the normal keyboard. The keys always act as if they were held down for at least 680 milliseconds or so, even if you touch them for less time than that. So every time you press one, it is equivalent to holding it for seven tenths of a second. This is long enough to trigger typematic behavior in the default settings. The problem can be worked around by setting the typematic initial delay to greater than 700 milliseconds, but this is not a real solution.
Apparently GNOME uses these keys through DBus or something, and this prevents the typematic rate from becoming a factor. Hence, GNOME does not shoe repeated events when these keys are used. In KDE, these keys are detected directly in the same way as all other keys, so the typematic rate comes into play and generates multiple key press events. Hence, in GNOME the keys work correctly, and do not generate multiple key presses. In KDE, each time you press one of these keys, it acts as if you had pressed it two, three, or four times. This makes the keys all but useless in KDE. The volume keys adjust the volume by triple the appropriate amount; the next and previous buttons skip 3 songs; The play/pause button and the mute button only work if they generates an odd number of key presses, since and even number of toggles has no effect. Is there any way to run the GNOME volume control thingy in KDE until this is fixed? -- Dell XPS m1330 multimedia keys don't work in Ubuntu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226509 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
