Bug#677703: Shortcuts lost after upgrade

[Michael Biebl]

On 16.06.2012 12:08, Pietro Battiston wrote:
> Package: metacity
> Version: 1:2.34.3-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Yesterday I upgraded metacity (though I don't remember, I guess from
> 1:2.34.3-1) and apparently lost my preferences (theme, shortcuts and presumably
> something else).
> 
> After inspecting a bit, I think that
> - "standard" shortcuts (i.e. "play", "next track") were correctly migrated
> - the theme settings couldn't be migrated simply because old themes are no more
> compatible
> - "free" shortcuts (i.e. "open a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T) were instead just
> dropped.
> 
> The last looks to me as a bug: if I understood correctly (from the Debian
> changelog entry of 1:2.34.3-1), there is a conversion script somewhere which
> should presumably be fixed, but I wasn't able to find it.

- Some shortcuts were dropped (like starting the terminal).
- Custom shortcuts are no longer handled by metacity but
gnome-settings-daemon and are *not* automatically migrated
- Non-window manager shortcuts are broken if they use <Super>

See also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=673612#61
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=675982


Cheers,
Michael
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