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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)
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 09:30:49 +0000 (10:30 +0100)
commit2b0c59baa23c04475579def2ab3c7945eaf67b4f
tree965cca2fe1ce11e4d740d679753ccc77af88dc68
parent0d2eef9bcbd8c85713b5523ae0f104a34c1a9645
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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hwdb/60-keyboard.hwdb