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Bug 466058 - Preferences :: Keyboard Shortcuts show hexadecimal codes instead of actual shortcut keys
Preferences :: Keyboard Shortcuts show hexadecimal codes instead of actual sh...
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] Keybinding
2.19.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-08-12 20:49 UTC by Martin Olsson
Modified: 2007-08-13 17:02 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.19/2.20

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Screenshot showing what I see when I look at the shortcut keys dialog (386.66 KB, image/png)
2007-08-12 20:50 UTC, Martin Olsson 		Details

Description Martin Olsson 2007-08-12 20:49:39 UTC 
When I go into "System :: Preferences :: Keyboard Shortcuts" I see a whole bunch of things that are currently bound to hexadecimal values. For example, "Volume mute" is bound to "0xa0" which makes zero sense to me.

I think it would be a huge improvement for new users to actually print the shortcut keys here. Users migrating from other OSes can then use this dialog to learn new shortcut keys and thus use GNOME more efficiently.

Other information:
Comment 1 Martin Olsson 2007-08-12 20:50:33 UTC 
Created attachment 93553 [details]
Screenshot showing what I see when I look at the shortcut keys dialog
Comment 2 Martin Olsson 2007-08-12 20:52:12 UTC 
I found this bug using Ubuntu Gutsy tribe4 test version. I found many duplicate reports of this bug in Ubuntu launchpad but for some reason, no body seemed to have reported it upstream to GNOME. Inside launchpad you can see this bug reported as 25002 etc etc.
Comment 3 Jens Granseuer 2007-08-13 17:02:07 UTC 
This is not a bug in the shortcuts capplet. It does show the key names *if the keys actually have names*. If they aren't mapped to proper keysyms, there's nothing we can do about it. Your keymap needs to be fixed (see xmodmap).