I've just read through this entire thread - to summarize: It seems we have two/three issues:
1) The out-of-the-box behaviour only allows the windows key to be used on it's own, not as part of a shortcut using the keyboard shortcut applet 2) The workaround of setting super or meta is mapped to the windows key only makes it work for some commands but not others - someone suggested this is due to whether the shortcuts are stored in different places: Philipp Kohlbecher wrote on 2007-06-04: The difference seems to be that the shortcut for launching the terminal is set in gconf setting /apps/metacity/global_keybindings (as is the shortcut for minimizing all windows to show the desktop, for example), while the shortcut for locking the screen is set in /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/keybindings (as is the shortcut for launching the web browser, for example) 3) The workaround apparently breaks the behaviour of Alt Gr: alca wrote on 2009-04-27: yesterday i tried the workaround proposed by smkururu and i answered some questions written by me (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/12153/comments/106): changing 'System > Preferences > Keyboard > Layouts > Layout Options > Alt/Win key behavior' to 'Meta is mapped to Win keys' the effect is that the AltGr button does not have a behaviour like before: no key-combination is available (i cannot use the character '@' with AltGr + ò, for example) Anyone have anything to add? More details, more complaints, progress updates? Do we have any developers looking into this? -- Cannot use Windows key in keyboard shortcuts https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/12153 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
