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Re:Microsoft embeds nagware into IE patch by heinrich5991 on Thursday March 10, 2016 @08:56PM (#11264140)
You could first check via `xev` whether the key presses actually arrive in software. For me they did, but my desktop environment didn't adjust the brightness if an `XF86MonBrightnessUp` event fired.
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Re:Microsoft embeds nagware into IE patch by JBReefer on Thursday March 10, 2016 @10:41PM (#11264507)
Same with my Chromebook, once you know the events arrive it was a simple mapping in Xubuntu.
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Re:Microsoft embeds nagware into IE patch by JoshTriplett on Thursday March 10, 2016 @10:52PM (#11264542)
Manual mapping shouldn't be required for most current desktop environments. GNOME and KDE certainly do, and I think Unity does as well. If your desktop environment doesn't map those keys by default, please file a bug against it.

It's great that Linux makes it possible to manually fix such things, but it's even better when they work out of the box.

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