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

[Michael Biebl]

On 04.06.2012 20:53, Josh Triplett wrote:

> 
> (Also, why does gnome-core depend on metacity, given that GNOME 3.4
> doesn't actually use metacity, just metacity/mutter's libraries and
> such?)

We still require metacity for the fallback mode.

> That bug report makes the issue pretty clear.  With the window manager
> catching the <Super> modifier and using it to open the activities
> overview, nothing other than the window manager can use <Super>+key for
> shortcuts.  So, all the <Super>+key shortcuts in gnome-settings-daemon
> (such as launching a browser) don't work, but those in the window
> manager (such as moving windows around) work just fine.

Just some additional information:
The grabby <Super> handling was already a problem with 3.0 and 3.2.
What changed in 3.4 and with the switch from gconf to gsettings, is that
a couple of keybindings moved from gnome-shell to gnome-settings-daemon
[1], specifically:
- custom keybindings
- screenshot keybindings
- the terminal keybinding was removed and needs to be added as a custom
keybinding.

As the above keybindings were previously managed by the window manager
(i.e. shell or metacity) you could use <Super> there. This is the
specific regression from 3.2 to 3.4 you are experiencing.




[1]
http://blogs.gnome.org/fmuellner/2011/11/22/gnome-shell-gsettings-and-keybindings/

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