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hwdb: map zoomin/out keys to up/down
authorMartin Pitt <martin@piware.de>
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 20:17:08 +0000 (21:17 +0100)
committerSven Eden <yamakuzure@gmx.net>
Wed, 30 May 2018 05:50:12 +0000 (07:50 +0200)
commit1bb50458cfda3201da0374894ff32922c3fe1642
tree1d5ddd9f42bfd2c742d91cfe6a130fe233db3a41
parent7b4cde9b3f8f816c134fd21f4ac2e59a3ff96887
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
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