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[Rolf Leggewie <802589@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

quantal has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any
updates. Marking the quantal task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".

** Changed in: xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu Quantal)
       Status: Triaged => Won't Fix

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Title:
  KEY_CYCLEWINDOWS invalidly mapped to XF86RotateWindows

Status in xkeyboard-config package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in xkeyboard-config source package in Quantal:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  On a ThinkPad X201s you have some extra keys on the tablet: one which
  looks like a round circle, which triggers an evdev event
  KEY_CYCLEWINDOWS. There is no unanimous interpretation of the meaning
  of the icon, but cycling windows (aka Alt+Tab) seemed the most useful
  to have there. Another key has a portrait and landscape screen symbol
  with arrows in between, i. e. change between portrait and landscape
  screen rotation; it is currently triggering a KEY_DIRECTION evdev
  event.

  Pressing the latter does nothing, pressing the former key causes
  screen rotation. It should be the other way around.

  /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/inet maps <I162> (which is
  KEY_CYCLEWINDOWS) to XF86RotateWindows.

  The problem here is that there is unclear terminology on all three
  levels of the stack here:

   * "Rotating windows" is a misnomer and doesn't make sense; what we
  really want is either cycling windows or rotating screens. I think
  xkb-data shouldn't map cycling windows to rotating windows, so I file
  this against xkb-data.

   * KEY_DIRECTION is a bit underspecified, too. It could be used for
  screen rotation just as well as for changing the direction your turtle
  is walking in your Logo interpreter.

   * gnome-settings-daemon causes screen rotation on XF86RotateWindows.
  But as there is no XF86RotateScreen, that's the closest xkbsym to use.

  I think it would be best to fix it in the xkb-data layer and map
  <I161> (KEY_DIRECTION) to XF86RotateScreen and don't define <I162>
  (KEY_CYCLEWINDOWS).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: xkb-data 2.2.1-1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-1.2-generic 3.0.0-rc3
  Uname: Linux 3.0-1-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,resize,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,session,unityshell]
  CompositorRunning: compiz
  Date: Mon Jun 27 16:21:11 2011
  Dependencies:
   
  DistUpgraded: Fresh install
  DistroCodename: oneiric
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  GraphicsCard:
   Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:215a]
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110302)
  MachineType: LENOVO 3323REG
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0-1-generic root=UUID=272e96ff-bdea-4dc8-94ae-7bb1a90e049e ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  Renderer: Unknown
  SourcePackage: xkeyboard-config
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 06/07/2010
  dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.bios.version: 6QET46WW (1.16 )
  dmi.board.name: 3323REG
  dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.board.version: Not Available
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr6QET46WW(1.16):bd06/07/2010:svnLENOVO:pn3323REG:pvrThinkPadX201:rvnLENOVO:rn3323REG:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
  dmi.product.name: 3323REG
  dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X201
  dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110606-0ubuntu4
  version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu13
  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.25-2ubuntu2
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.10.3-0ubuntu4
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.3-0ubuntu4
  version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu5
  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.0-3ubuntu1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1

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