A quick additional not: using "xdotool key XF86AudioPlay" and "xdotool key XF86AudioPause" works correctly, so maybe it's not all media keys that are broken and there's something odd about my Bluetooth one.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1397142 Title: Sony SRS-BTM8 play/pause key not fully effective in Banshee Status in unity-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I have a Sony SRS-BTM8 Bluetooth speaker, and its audio side works fairly well with Ubuntu. It also has a play/pause button and that doesn't work so well. I think the problem lies in unity-settings- daemon. To demonstrate that the Bluetooth side is working, if I switch to a text console and run "evtest /dev/input/event9", then when pressing the button I get events for KEY_PLAYCD if the speaker is not playing anything, and alternating KEY_PAUSECD and KEY_PLAYCD if it is playing something. However, within the Unity desktop I find that if I'm running Banshee or Rhythmbox then pressing the button successfully pauses the music, but doesn't start it playing again. If I run "xev" and give it the keyboard focus while testing this (so xev sees all ungrabbed keystrokes) then it sees only a KeyRelease event for XF86AudioPause, but both KeyPress and KeyRelease events for XF86AudioPlay. I've attached the full output from xev. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: unity-settings-daemon 14.04.0+14.04.20140606-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-25.33~14.04.2-generic 3.16.7 Uname: Linux 3.16.0-25-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5 Architecture: i386 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Thu Nov 27 23:43:01 2014 DistributionChannelDescriptor: # This is a distribution channel descriptor # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor canonical-oem-motts-20100121-3 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-06-09 (1632 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu GNU/Linux 9.10 "Karmic" - Build i386 LIVE Binary 20100121-21:52 SourcePackage: unity-settings-daemon UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-08-15 (104 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-settings-daemon/+bug/1397142/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
