Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately

[Adrian Chadd]

Right, but this sounds like some bug to send upstream. Or at least patch in
our port(s) for this stuff.

What keyboard / laptop has the key code '150' map to 'go to sleep' ?



-adiran


On 16 August 2013 17:09, Matthias Petermann <matthias at d2ux.org> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> a short update on this. I just found out: at least in Gnome 2 the behavior
> can be prevented by using the gconf-settings tool, changing the value of
> the key "/apps/gnome-power-manager/buttons/suspend" from "suspend" to
> "nothing". Seems like some ubuntu users had the same issue as I found the
> workaround there.
>
> Kind regards,
> Matthias
>
>
> Am 16.08.2013 08:44, schrieb Adrian Chadd:
>
> Hi!
>
>  I'm glad someone else is seeing this!
>
>  I have the same behaviour with KDE4 on my T60 and T400. If I go to run
> amiwm (because hey, Workbench is awesome!) it doesn't happen.
>
>  .. and bah, I wish the resume worked for you. It works fine for me on
> T42i, T60, T400.
>
>
>
>  -adrian
>
>
>
> On 15 August 2013 23:32, Matthias Petermann <matthias at d2ux.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a Lenovo X121e running Current with X and the Gnome desktop.
>> Beside other issues[1] there is a strange behavior of Gnome-Desktop (and
>> GDM too). When I press "Fn" without any additional key, the device
>> immediately goes to sleep. As the X121e cannot resume properly from sleep,
>> this forces me to reboot.
>>
>> This problem appears to be only exist when using Gnome / GDM.
>> Pure X with TWM doesn't have this issue.
>>
>> I already tried to re-map the Fn key (I found in some mailing this might
>> have the keycode 150) to a "less dangerous" key:
>> $ xmodmap -e "keycode 150 = Delete"
>> this brought no change.
>>
>> Has anyone an idea if Gnome re-maps the keys in some way or how I can
>> disable this? At the moment this is the only blocker to use this Laptop for
>> daily work, as I tend to accidently touch the Fn key more often than I want
>> to reboot ;-)
>>
>> Thanks in advance & kind regards,
>> Matthias
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=544740+551865+/usr/local/www/db/text/2013/freebsd-current/20130707.freebsd-current
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