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  1. Bug #287215
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 287215

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MasterZ (arnaud-delcroix) wrote : Re: [intrepid] xmodmap settings not getting honored when keyboard devices are hotplugged

I have the same problem on my laptop ACER 1705 trying to map the unrecognized media keys.

I tried to map 2 keys to 'F21' and 'F22' using xmodmap.
This works ok and 'xev' confirm that.

Then I am able to map those keys in 'Preferences/Keyoard_Shortcuts' or in compiz 'ccsm'.
Everything works until I restart X or reboot.
(I tried running the xmodmap association script in the session startup; in gdm/Init; in gdm/Postlogin; in gdm/Presession)

After X_restart or reboot, the keys are still correctly recognised by 'xev' but the shortcut associations do not work anymore.

Looking in 'Preferences/Keyoard_Shortcuts' the mapping is still there, but it seems to be ignored.
I have to disable the mapping,then set it back to 'F21' manually. After that, the shortcut works again.

This bug might be related to Bug #289781.