GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 155477
Enabling "Locate Pointer" screws up hot keys
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
1) Use the Mouse Preferences control panel to turn on "Highlight the pointer when you press Ctrl" 2) Set the "Show the panel run application dialog" to "Control-Tab" (or something involving control) 3) Type Control-Tab. Notice how the Run Application dialog didn't show up, and focus got messed up or something. 4) Uncheck "Highlight the pointer when you press Ctrl" 5) Now type Control-Tab again. Notice how it works as it should? So, if you tunr on pointer highlighting, it messes up hotkey handling.
I should mention that the "Show the panel run application dialog" is in the Keyboard Shortcuts control panel.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 125618 ***