Bug 189066

Summary: Multimedia (volume control) keys not working, when keyboard layouts are enabled
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: Tamás Németh <nt1277>
Component: kcm_keyboard_layoutAssignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: arysin, kuba.talas
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Tamás Németh 2009-04-07 20:29:16 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

Volume control works now in KDE4, but only until I enable the handling of keyboard layout management in the country and region section of KDE settings. Just enabling the keyboard layout management immediately disables the volume keys, so that they remain disabled even after disabling the layout management. I have to restart X after disabling layout management in order to re-enable the multimedia keys.

However, there is a good workaround:

When I change the keyboard model to microsoftpro, just like in xorg.conf, it fixes the problem. In the future, KDE might be aware of the current X configuration, and select the appropriate keyboard model as default.
Comment 1 Tamás Németh 2009-04-07 20:29:45 UTC 
See: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442384
Comment 2 kuba.talas 2009-05-19 22:14:15 UTC 
I can confirm - this happens also in KDE 4.3 BETA 1.
Comment 3 Tamás Németh 2009-10-16 11:29:08 UTC 
It's solved in KDE 4.3.1 (or at least in openSUSE 11.2). Kuba, can you confirm this (preferably on a different distribution)?
Comment 4 kuba.talas 2009-10-18 20:35:40 UTC 
I ll let you know in a month when I install os 11.2.
Comment 5 Andriy Rysin 2010-05-12 03:06:38 UTC 
In 4.5 the Keyboard config UI first time will load current keyboard model from x.org