Oh, huh. I wonder what it could be. I have them set as hotkeys in Gnome settings, but to my knowledge nothing is running that would actually make use of them... Thanks for the insight, anyway.
2010/12/17 Rémi Denis-Courmont <[email protected]> > Much as I suspected, xev does not receive the key press events. In other > words, the X server is not sending them to applications. So it's not a > VLC bug. > > I suppose another application has grabbed the keys, so no other can > receive them. > > ** Changed in: vlc (Ubuntu) > Status: Incomplete => Invalid > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/690866 > > Title: > Can't set multimedia keys as hotkeys > > Status in “vlc” package in Ubuntu: > Invalid > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: vlc > > When I try to set one of the multimedia keys on my Dell XPS M1210 laptop as > a hotkey, VLC doesn't recognize that a key has been pressed. I'm using VLC > 1.1.5 on Ubuntu Maverick. I am able to set multimedia keys as hotkeys in VLC > 1.1.5 on the same computer under Windows XP. > > > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/690866/+subscribe > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/690866 Title: Can't set multimedia keys as hotkeys -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
