GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 672343
Some Win+key (Mod4+key, Super+key) keyboard shortcuts do not work
Last modified: 2012-03-18 13:58:01 UTC
Description of problem: It seems that some of the gnome-shell keyboard shortcuts using the value containing the Win key (Mod4) will not work. The Super+key shortcut is possible to set for most of the actions in the setting of Personal Menu/System Settings/Keyboard/Shortcuts. Problem is that Super (Win, Mod4) key works only for very few of them. Currently (gnome 3.3.x) it works only for the mutter actions (Shortcuts/Windows). In previous versions is used to work for the old metacity keyboards shortcuts settings, but this stopped working with gnome 3.3. For example: 1) WORKS Shortcuts/Windows - setting for "Window split left", "Window split right" to Super+left resp. Super+right. Shortcuts/Navigation - Hide all normal windows on Super+D 2) DESNT WORK - Shortcuts/Launchers - "Launch Web Browser" on Super+F Shortcuts/Screenshots - Shortcuts/Sound an Media - "Volume Down" "Volume Up" on Super+[ resp. Super+] Shortcuts/System - "Lock Screen" on Super+L Shortcuts/Custom Shortcuts - custom shortcut for running gnome-terminal on Super+T Best regards Michal Ambroz
Issue demonstrates in Fedora 17 Alfa release: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738080
(In reply to comment #0) > In previous versions is used to work for the old metacity keyboards shortcuts > settings, but this stopped working with gnome 3.3. That is still the case - all the examples you mention for non-working shortcuts are provided by gnome-settings-daemon (except tbe one for launching a terminal, which has been removed). It is a known problem that using the super key in those bindings doesn't work, so dup'ing on the corresponding bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 662580 ***