Bug#673612: Keyboard shortcuts no longer work with gnome-shell 3.4

[Michael Biebl]

On 20.05.2012 21:57, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 12:36:09PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> On 20.05.2012 09:00, Josh Triplett wrote:

> 
>> Keyboard shortcuts have been switched from gconf to gsettings.
>> - Were existing shortcuts not migrated?
> 
> Correct.  The shortcut for a terminal has disappeared entirely rather
> than migrating to a custom shortcut or similar.  And the section for
> window management shortcuts seems to have disappeared as well; I don't
> see any way to add shortcuts for maximize, fullscreen, or move window to
> top/bottom/left/right.

The window manager keybinding definitions for g-c-c are shipped as
/usr/share/gnome-control-center/keybindings/50-metacity-*.xml
in metacity-common. After installing this package, you should be able to
configure those keys in g-c-c again.

We've been discussing, where to add a dependency on metacity-common
(libmutter, g-c-c, gnome-shell) but haven't quite agreed on something yet.

  The shortcut for a web browser has stopped
> working as well.  

What is
gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys www
set to?

None of the shortcuts I've previously set appear
> anywhere in the keyboard settings dialog.

Were those custom shortcuts or did you just re-assign different keys to
a predefined shortcut?


>> - Do keyboard shortcuts not work at all?
> 
> The default shortcuts seem to work, for what they provide: alt-tab,
> alt-F4, volume keys, screenshots, etc.  I can also create keyboard
> shortcuts using Ctrl+Alt+key and those work fine.  Shortcuts using
> Super+key don't, though.

Regarding the poor handling of the Super key, see buxy's email and
also https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659899

I'm not an expert on this matter, so help with this particular issue
would be greatly appreciated.

> If I set the shortcuts to use a modifier other than Super, I can invoke
> them.  Any shortcut I set using Super does not seem to work, though the
> keyboard settings dialog itself recognizes it just fine.
> 
> Also, I see no way to recreate my existing shortcuts for maximization,
> fullscreen, or moving windows up/down/left/right.

See above, wrt. metacity-common

Fwiw, the media keys are stored under
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys:
gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys

The window management keybindings are stored under
org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings:
gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings


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