GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 162904
Gnome keybindings problems
Last modified: 2005-01-05 20:17:13 UTC
Try to assign <Control><Alt>s for example to stop playback. S key stops working at all, removing the binding doesn't fix it. I had to call xmodmap -e 'keycode 39 = s S s S' to make it work again. This problem may belong to some other component, but I have no better idea than metacity.
This problem is also present on the latest metacity built from CVS HEAD (version 2.9.1). But again even I am not sure if this is really a metacity problem or it should be moved to the control-center product under keybindings component.
I can duplicate. However, note that the stop playback key is under control of gnome_settings_daemon, not metacity. If one tries to switch a keybinding like the one for show desktop ("Hide all windows and focus desktop"), then no such problem occurs. So this isn't a metacity issue; I'll reassign to control center. Losing the ability to use a normal key is a pretty bad problem (I wouldn't have known how to fix it myself, so I'm glad Ondøej provided that step for me), so I'm marking priority up. (Also, note that version 2.9.1 isn't the latest metacity...)
that's a dup of #133815 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 133815 ***