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Bug 639435 - Special keystrokes, including shortcuts and multimedia keys, cease to function when certain applications and menus are open
Special keystrokes, including shortcuts and multimedia keys, cease to functio...
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: GtkMenu
2.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-01-13 16:02 UTC by Chris Wilson
Modified: 2011-01-13 21:09 UTC
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Description Chris Wilson 2011-01-13 16:02:58 UTC 
Originally reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/623922

Certain keyboard, as well as any multimedia keys a computer may have, cease to function when certain applications and menus are open. This includes the menus in the Gnome panel, the game 'World of Goo', available from the Ubuntu Software Centre.
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2011-01-13 16:44:43 UTC 
Not a bug. This is simply the way menus are implemented under X, with grab.
Comment 2 Chris Wilson 2011-01-13 16:51:07 UTC 
It's not just menus that this is happening with, but applications such as some fullscreen games are being affected by it. In these situations, the user is unable to change the volume of their system using the multimedia keys on their keyboard, and they can't minimize the application to do so manually since the keyboard shortcuts they would use are non-functional.