From: Martin Pitt Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 20:17:08 +0000 (+0100) Subject: hwdb: map zoomin/out keys to up/down X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1bb50458cfda3201da0374894ff32922c3fe1642;p=elogind.git hwdb: map zoomin/out keys to up/down Some keyboards come with a zoom see-saw or rocker which until now got mapped to the Linux "zoomin/out" keys in hwdb. However, these keycodes are not recognized by any major desktop. They now produce Up/Down key events so that they can be used for scrolling. The internet is full of instructions how to "unbreak" these keys, e. g. https://askubuntu.com/questions/471802/make-the-zoom-slider-of-microsoft-natural-ergonomic-keyboard-4000-and-7000-scrol https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/322075/how-to-get-ms-natural-ergonomic-4000-slider-work-on-linux-mint So let's make it official. But keep their physical meaning in comments in case desktops start to do something useful with them at some point. Thanks to Finn Christiansen for the original patch! Replaces #6953 --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 95126d661..3fc947f98 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,14 @@ systemd System and Service Manager +CHANGES WITH 237 in spe: + + * Some keyboards come with a zoom see-saw or rocker which until now got + mapped to the Linux "zoomin/out" keys in hwdb. However, these + keycodes are not recognized by any major desktop. They now produce + Up/Down key events so that they can be used for scrolling. + + — Berlin, 2018-XX-XX + CHANGES WITH 236: * The modprobe.d/ drop-in for the bonding.ko kernel module introduced