How to restore default Keyboard Shortcuts

[IGM0937]

Hi, im new to this forum and new to Ubuntu. I have a bit of a problem.

I haven't seen a topic on this, but im using a laptop at the moment and i accidentally changed some of the keyboard shortcuts that for some reason i cant change back because the system cant recognize those buttons in the first place. Im using a Dell Studio 15 Laptop and Ubuntu wont recognize the "eject" button on my Media Touch pad controls

Is there a way of reseting the settings to the original state, because the setting that it had before might have worked with the button. If not, is there a way that i can help to recognize the media buttons.

A BIT OF A HIT... it recognizes some of my Media buttons by the name "XF86", so my play button would be "XF86AudioPlay"... if this helps at all.

[IGM0937]

Anyone? :(

[K. Hendrik]

Hi,
could you please explain how you changed the shortcut because there are a lot of ways. (.xbindkeys, fdi-file, gconf...)

[IGM0937]

i changed them using the built in application you should find in the Ubuntu distribution. Its under System, Preferences and its Keyboard Shortcuts

[K. Hendrik]

ok now i understand your problem, ok it got nothing todo with the hotkeykey assignment if the eject key can't be recognized now it couldn't before.

The key only has a raw value right now not a keycode you need to assign one, the procedure is described here (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultimediaKeys).

If you need help with that start a terminal, push the unrecognized key a few times and execute:

dmesg

and Post the last 10-20 lines of the result here.

Edit:
I would need the relust of dumpkeys too.

[IGM0937]

here you go... if probably done it wrong, but gave it a shoot anyway.. i personally can see anything from the results

[ 87.008498] CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain.
[ 87.008516] CPU1 attaching NULL sched-domain.
[ 87.040125] CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
[ 87.040135] domain 0: span 0-1 level MC
[ 87.040140] groups: 0 1
[ 87.040148] domain 1: span 0-1 level CPU
[ 87.040152] groups: 0-1
[ 87.040157] domain 2: span 0-1 level NODE
[ 87.040162] groups: 0-1
[ 87.040170] CPU1 attaching sched-domain:
[ 87.040174] domain 0: span 0-1 level MC
[ 87.040178] groups: 1 0
[ 87.040184] domain 1: span 0-1 level CPU
[ 87.040189] groups: 0-1
[ 87.040194] domain 2: span 0-1 level NODE
[ 87.040199] groups: 0-1
[ 117.034796] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 117.035768] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[ 117.036309] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 127.560055] eth1: no IPv6 routers present
[ 1166.937304] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 15000 nsec
[ 1213.856092] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 22500 nsec
[ 1219.537106] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 33750 nsec

and when i executed "dumpkeys" i got a massive list of assigned keys, but it only showed a portion because the list is so massive that when i scroll to the top i cant see the beginning of the list.. its very limited.

Sorry but im a full on Ubuntu Noob... if there is anything wrong please tell me.

[WhatAbout]

I have the same problem in keyboard shortcuts.

My laptop is thinkpad and the native volume buttons dont respond to the volume control in ubuntu. And i just cant find the key codes maped to them.

Fun part is that when I press mute on the laptop it lowers the volume to a minimum, but dosent mute. I guess that as the buttons are directly maped to hardware, (amplifier), the button dont shut it down fully. Only a guess. :)