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Bug 686870 - Keyboard shortcut to launch help
Keyboard shortcut to launch help
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-settings-daemon
Classification: Core
Component: media-keys
3.7.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-settings-daemon-maint
gnome-settings-daemon-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-10-25 15:11 UTC by Allan Day
Modified: 2019-03-20 11:04 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.5/3.6



Description Allan Day 2012-10-25 15:11:44 UTC
F1 is the standard shortcut key to launch the help browser. This doesn't seem to be set on a system-wide basis by default, which means that pressing F1 on a blank desktop doesn't launch the desktop help.

It would be good if we could set the system-wide help shortcut to F1 by default.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2013-03-05 13:31:46 UTC
Florian, can we implement that in gnome-shell's key capture?
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2015-11-04 16:26:12 UTC
Florian?
Comment 3 Florian Müllner 2015-11-04 17:23:01 UTC
We could add a NO_FOCUS_WINDOW mode, then the normal key grabbing should just work.
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2015-11-04 17:24:09 UTC
(In reply to Florian Müllner from comment #3)
> We could add a NO_FOCUS_WINDOW mode, then the normal key grabbing should
> just work.

That would work for me. Do you want to handle the gnome-shell side of it?
Comment 5 Florian Müllner 2015-11-05 15:03:24 UTC
Grrr, that was a thinko on my part. Limiting the global shortcut in normal mode when no window has focus works in the sense that the action is only performed in that case. It doesn't change that the key is still grabbed globally, so the application never gets to do its own handling.

So this will turn out more intrusive than originally thought :-(
Comment 6 Bastien Nocera 2016-04-05 12:48:52 UTC
See also bug 764220.

If Super+F1 is good enough, we could close this bug.
Comment 7 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2019-03-20 11:04:34 UTC
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