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[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

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

** Affects: xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Chris Halse Rogers (raof)
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug compiz-0.9 oneiric running-unity ubuntu unity-2d

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