Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] Input: Add a Kconfig to emulate KEY_SCREENLOCK with META + L

[Mario Limonciello <superm1@kernel.org>]

On 4/26/25 13:41, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>>>> In the PC industry KEY_SCREENLOCK isn't used as frequently as it used
>>>> to be. Modern versions of Windows [1], GNOME and KDE support "META" + "L"
>>>> to lock the screen. Modern hardware [2] also sends this sequence of
>>>> events for keys with a silkscreen for screen lock.
>>>>
>>>> Introduced a new Kconfig option that will change KEY_SCREENLOCK when
>>>> emitted by driver to META + L.
>>>
>>> Fix gnome and kde, do not break kernel...
>>
>> I'm sorry; fix them to do what exactly?  Switch to KEY_SCREENLOCK?
>>
>> That's going to break modern hardware lockscreen keys.  They've all
>> obviously moved to META+L because that's what hardware today uses.
> 
> Gnome / KDE should accept either META+L _or_ KEY_SCREENLOCK to do the
> screen locking, no?
> 

This was actually the first path I looked down before I even started the 
kernel patch direction for this problem.

GNOME doesn't support assigning more than one shortcut key for an action.