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[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Can you please install the "evtest" package and check with "sudo evtest"
that you actually get brightness keycodes every time you press these
keys? I suppose that is true as you write "Changing the shortcut to
execute "xfce4-terminal" seems to make the hotkey 100% consistent", so
the evdev events seem to be alright.

So this is most likely a bug in the XFCE service which reacts to these
key codes (I don't know exactly what that is), or possibly (but unlikely
according to your description) in the kernel if it does not synthesize
key codes correctly.

** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

** Package changed: systemd (Ubuntu) => xfce4-settings (Ubuntu)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1313220

Title:
  Application Shortcuts (Hotkeys) Only Sometimes Work

Status in “xfce4-settings” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I am running Xubuntu 14.04 on a HP Pavilion Chromebook 14. I have set
  the F6 button to execute: "xdotool key XF86MonBrightnessDown" under
  Keyboard --> Application Shortcuts. The brightness only decreases
  sometimes. However, when I execute "xdotool key XF86MonBrightnessDown"
  from a terminal, it always works. Changing the shortcut to execute
  "xfce4-terminal" seems to make the hotkey 100% consistent. However,
  changing it back to "xdotool key XF86MonBrightnessDown" seems to make
  it inconsistent again. This bug did not occur with Xubuntu 13.10.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: udev 204-5ubuntu20
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Sat Apr 26 19:51:12 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-26 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140416.2)
  MachineType: Hewlett-Packard Butterfly
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic root=UUID=741a1c2e-5ff5-45af-a29b-c02f08a8630e ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: systemd
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 10/27/2013
  dmi.bios.vendor: coreboot
  dmi.bios.version: 4.0-4745-g1ce4860-dirty
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvncoreboot:bvr4.0-4745-g1ce4860-dirty:bd10/27/2013:svnHewlett-Packard:pnButterfly:pvr1.0:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct3:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: Butterfly
  dmi.product.version: 1.0
  dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

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