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Bug#488238: tasksel: hotkey-setup draggs discover in



On Fri, June 27, 2008 12:29, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> When this is said, there are rumors that the task done by hotkey-setup
> now can be handled by hal/dbus instead.  I have not verified that this
> is true, but I have seen information under /usr/share/hal/fdi/ that
> make me suspect it is correct.  If hal/dbus do a better job of
> handling the hotkeys, hotkey-setup should be removed from Debian.

HAL does all the necessary setup for the hotkeys on my laptop and seems to
be the recommended approach upstream (and with input hotplugging in X, HAL
will become a pretty hard dependency of the X server if I've understood
things correctly).

See:
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-keymap-index.html

-- 
David Härdeman




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