GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 613396
Metacity doesn't allow doing Alt + 7 on azerty keyboard
Last modified: 2010-03-29 13:27:08 UTC
Created attachment 156612 [details] [review] Git format patch to revert default cycle_group keybinding Looking at this commit: http://git.gnome.org/browse/metacity/commit/?id=0f805bfdfb46e6739912df042f628ca9913b433c the new default cycle_group keybinding to Alt-grave. There are two wrong assumptions there: - ` being above tab is surely true for some qwerty layout, but not in other layout like azerty (² is above the tab). We should find a clever way to find the key above tab - ` is proceeded in azerty keyboard (french layout) by <Alt Gr + è>. The issue is that <Shift + è> is "7". And so, "Alt + 7" (used in some applications like irssi, weechat, …) is <Alt + Shift + è>, which is the reverse order to naviguate between grouped windows, and so, you can't anymore access to this keybinding. Here is a simple patch reverting the change back to Alt + F6, which is I guess, less annoying. If I can help in the long term (some documentation pointer needed as I have not a strong background on keybindings) on the first mentioned point to get a better shortcut, I'll be happy to help there.
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.