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Bug 651901 - extensions cannot add new keybindings
extensions cannot add new keybindings
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 663428
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: extensions
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on: 635378
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-06-05 01:23 UTC by Tim Cuthbertson
Modified: 2011-11-05 23:51 UTC
See Also:
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Description Tim Cuthbertson 2011-06-05 01:23:41 UTC
Currently there seems to be no way for a shell extension to register a new keybinding alongside the built-in mutter keybindings. This blocks a number of useful extensions that need more (or different) keybindings to what mutter has built-in (e.g a tiling window extension, which I am currently working on).

Currently I believe the only way to add a keybinding is by adding it to mutter's source code (all-keybindings.h), adding a (NOOP) handler to it, and recompiling. This obviously makes distributing such extensions implausible, as combining multiple such extensions would require merging & recompiling on the user's side according to their particular set of extensions.
Comment 1 John Stowers 2011-11-05 23:47:48 UTC
Isn't this the same as bug 651899 ?
Comment 2 John Stowers 2011-11-05 23:48:24 UTC
Argh, of course I mean bug 663428
Comment 3 Florian Müllner 2011-11-05 23:51:01 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Argh, of course I mean bug 663428

Yes, thanks for the ping :)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 663428 ***