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Bug 699425 - Printscreen, Ctrl+Alt+Up & SUPER not working when panel menu is open
Printscreen, Ctrl+Alt+Up & SUPER not working when panel menu is open
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 698938
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-05-01 21:36 UTC by Bastian Ilsø
Modified: 2013-05-02 05:22 UTC
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Description Bastian Ilsø 2013-05-01 21:36:10 UTC 
When you open a menu in the gnome-shell upper panel by for example clicking on the sound icon, hotkeys such as Printscreen, Ctrl+Alt+Up/Down and activating overview with SUPER does not work. 

Steps to reproduce:
- Click the sound icon in the gnome-shell panel.
- While the sound menu is open, press SUPER / Ctrl+Alt+Up/Down / Printscreen.
Comment 1 Florian Müllner 2013-05-01 22:17:55 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> When you open a menu in the gnome-shell upper panel by for example clicking on
> the sound icon, hotkeys such as Printscreen, Ctrl+Alt+Up/Down and activating
> overview with SUPER does not work.

While some shortcuts clearly make sense while a menu is open (PrintScrn for instance), I don't see a good reason for switching workspaces or toggling the overview in that case - are there any particular use cases you have in mind?

Since bug 698938, we allow some shortcuts to work (basically those that already work when a system modal dialog like alt-f2 is open), so I'll tentatively mark this as duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 698938 ***
Comment 2 Bastian Ilsø 2013-05-02 05:22:19 UTC 
My initial impression of the hotkeys SUPER, Ctrl+Alt+Up & Printscreen was that they worked globally - preventing their use because a panel menu is open breaks this illusion. I would consider it more natural if the menu closed and the action the user requested took place when the user press SUPER or Ctrl+Alt+Up.

Anyway, thanks for reviewing this bug!