Bug 315

Summary: multimedia keyboard print key needs it's own symbol
Product: xorg Reporter: Egbert Eich <eich>
Component: Server/GeneralAssignee: Daniel Stone <daniel>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: high    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
URL: http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1027
Whiteboard:
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Bug Blocks: 16399    

Description Egbert Eich 2004-03-16 05:04:07 UTC
multimedia keyboard print key needs it's own symbol
http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1027
Comment 1 Egbert Eich 2005-01-26 02:16:17 UTC
Yep, I will look into this.
Comment 2 Chris Lee 2005-07-03 19:45:21 UTC
Any update, Egbert? 
Comment 3 Erik Andren 2006-04-25 07:20:10 UTC
Ping!
Comment 4 Erik Andren 2006-06-28 11:57:50 UTC
Ping!
Comment 5 Timo Jyrinki 2007-02-22 14:28:00 UTC
Marking broken (status null/blank) bugs in xorg with no activity in a long time as fixed. Please reopen if you think it's necessary, but first do a search if a similar bug report is already filed and in a NEW/ASSIGNED state. These bugs do not currently show in most search results as they do not have any status.

Sorry for this janitorial spam, you know where to send hate mails to when your inbox gets full of bugs you're subscribed to.
Comment 6 Egbert Eich 2007-02-26 09:24:15 UTC
Not to be closed. Still need to check.
Comment 7 Daniel Stone 2007-02-26 09:33:40 UTC
it doesn't make sense, and it's still possible to bind them, you just have to be careful about it.
Comment 8 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:23:20 UTC
Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.
Comment 9 Daniel Stone 2008-07-11 15:29:08 UTC
The stated problem was that n > 1 keycodes were bound to one keysym, which broke because XKeysymToKeycode doesn't return multiple results.  This can just as easily happen with any other keys (and does happen even today), so apps just have to avoid using XKeysymToKeycode and walk the map themselves to ascertain which keys (plural) to grab for a given keysym.

 -> WONTFIX, should document this somewhere though so people won't get surprised

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