Microphone mute button doesn't work in Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 and 14.04

[Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 07:04:36PM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:54:57AM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> > I am not sure whether this is a Ubuntu GNOME or general Ubuntu problem
> > but the microphone mute button on my Thinkpad T430S button does not work
> > in Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 and 14.04.

Summary of private conversation (taken off-list by Christian because he
thought it was becoming off-topic for the ubuntu-gnome list): it's a
bug in gnome-settings-daemon 3.8, where it was ignoring XF86AudioMicMute
keypresses.  This was fixed in gnome-settings-daemon 3.9.2 (commit
3a8beaaf in case anyone wants to backport the fix).

I'm not sure if this bug affects stock Ubuntu.  14.04 still has
gnome-settings-daemon 3.8, but they switched to unity-settings-daemon
for Unity sessions, right?  Does anyone know if u-s-d handles
XF86AudioMicMute?

> I've a ThinkPad X220.  The mic mute button works fine in Ubuntu GNOME 13.10.

That's because I've enabled the gnome3-team/gnome3 PPA and upgraded to
gnome-settings-daemon 3.10.

Marius Gedminas
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