@Sebastien: That's the thing, on the Dell XPS 15 9575 there IS a regression with xkb-data 2.23.1-1ubuntu1.18.10.1.
On this machine, the airplane mode key worked perfectly out-of-the-box (i.e., the key enabled AND disabled the airplane mode) with the development version of Cosmic, using xkb-data 2.23. See my comment #13 further up in this bug. Here's the debug output for gnome-settings-daemon: [*** Airplane mode is off, Wifi and BT are on ***] /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-rfkill -v (gsd-rfkill:18272): rfkill-plugin-DEBUG: 19:01:16.867: Read killswitch of type 'WLAN' (idx=1): soft 0 hard 0 (gsd-rfkill:18272): rfkill-plugin-DEBUG: 19:01:16.867: Read killswitch of type 'BLUETOOTH' (idx=11): soft 0 hard 0 (gsd-rfkill:18272): rfkill-plugin-DEBUG: 19:01:16.867: Added rfkill with ID 1 (gsd-rfkill:18272): rfkill-plugin-DEBUG: 19:01:16.867: Added Bluetooth rfkill with ID 11 (gsd-rfkill:18272): rfkill-plugin-DEBUG: 19:01:17.185: Registered client at path /org/gnome/SessionManager/Client29 (gsd-rfkill:18272): rfkill-plugin-DEBUG: 19:01:17.187: Opened rfkill-input inhibitor. [*** Here I am pressing the airplane mode key to enable Airplane mode > Wifi/BT goes off ***] (gsd-rfkill:18272): rfkill-plugin-DEBUG: 19:01:26.232: RFKILL event: idx 1 type 1 (WLAN) op 2 (CHANGE) soft 1 hard 0 (gsd-rfkill:18272): rfkill-plugin-DEBUG: 19:01:26.232: Changed rfkill with ID 1 (gsd-rfkill:18272): rfkill-plugin-DEBUG: 19:01:26.352: RFKILL event: idx 11 type 2 (BLUETOOTH) op 2 (CHANGE) soft 1 hard 0 (gsd-rfkill:18272): rfkill-plugin-DEBUG: 19:01:26.353: Changed Bluetooth rfkill with ID 11 [*** Here I am pressing the airplane mode key again to DISable Airplane mode > Wifi/BT should go back on. This fails and the airplane mode re- engages immediately as described ***] (gsd-rfkill:18272): rfkill-plugin-DEBUG: 19:03:11.523: RFKILL event: idx 1 type 1 (WLAN) op 2 (CHANGE) soft 0 hard 0 (gsd-rfkill:18272): rfkill-plugin-DEBUG: 19:03:11.523: RFKILL event: idx 11 type 2 (BLUETOOTH) op 2 (CHANGE) soft 0 hard 0 (gsd-rfkill:18272): rfkill-plugin-DEBUG: 19:03:11.523: Changed rfkill with ID 1 (gsd-rfkill:18272): rfkill-plugin-DEBUG: 19:03:11.523: Changed Bluetooth rfkill with ID 11 (gsd-rfkill:18272): rfkill-plugin-DEBUG: 19:03:12.394: RFKILL event: idx 1 type 1 (WLAN) op 2 (CHANGE) soft 1 hard 0 (gsd-rfkill:18272): rfkill-plugin-DEBUG: 19:03:12.394: Changed rfkill with ID 1 (gsd-rfkill:18272): rfkill-plugin-DEBUG: 19:03:12.394: RFKILL event: idx 11 type 2 (BLUETOOTH) op 2 (CHANGE) soft 1 hard 0 (gsd-rfkill:18272): rfkill-plugin-DEBUG: 19:03:12.394: Changed Bluetooth rfkill with ID 11 [*** Here I am pressing DISabling Airplane mode from the Gnome panel menu > Wifi/BT goes back on. This works ***] (gsd-rfkill:18272): rfkill-plugin-DEBUG: 19:05:10.298: RFKILL event: idx 1 type 1 (WLAN) op 2 (CHANGE) soft 0 hard 0 (gsd-rfkill:18272): rfkill-plugin-DEBUG: 19:05:10.298: RFKILL event: idx 11 type 2 (BLUETOOTH) op 2 (CHANGE) soft 0 hard 0 (gsd-rfkill:18272): rfkill-plugin-DEBUG: 19:05:10.298: Changed rfkill with ID 1 (gsd-rfkill:18272): rfkill-plugin-DEBUG: 19:05:10.298: Changed Bluetooth rfkill with ID 11 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to libxkbcommon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1740894 Title: KEY_RFKILL is not passed to userspace Status in libxkbcommon package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in xkeyboard-config package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in xorgproto package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in xkeyboard-config source package in Bionic: Fix Committed Status in xkeyboard-config source package in Cosmic: Fix Committed Bug description: * Impact the airplane mode key doesn't work in GNOME * Test case Use a laptop with a key to activate airplane mode, it should toggle the corresponding mode on/off when used * Regression potential The change adds a new key definition but doesn't touch any existing one, nothing specific to test out of the new key working --------------------- There are a couple things going on, that could be fixed by a Debian or Ubuntu maintainer: - libxkbdcommon needs to be updated from 0.7.1 to 0.7.2. This introduces the RFKill key: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives /wayland-devel/2017-August/034721.html - x11-proto needs a new release. This commit added RFKill, but it is not in a release: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/xproto/commit/?id=98a32d328e7195e12c38baa877917335bceffbaf - Likely other X11 packages need to be rebuilt. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxkbcommon/+bug/1740894/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
