Feisty : Ctrl + F doesn't work

[GoHabsGo]

I'm running Feisty Beta with latest updates and since now 3 weeks the Ctrl + F keyboard shortcut no longer redirects to File and Word searching. At first, it opened a Xterminal which I've decided to uninstall and remove. Thus, now it doesn't open Xterminal anymore, but the shortcut seems inactive. It's doesn't do anything. When I press it, no search field is opened in Firefox or in any given program with a search field option.

Thank you for your support.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 16 08:25:58 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-panel --sm-client-id default1
ProcCwd: /home/danny
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/danny/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux danny-laptop 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[GoHabsGo (ferrin-danny-deactivatedaccount)]

Upgraded to Feisty final and didn't fix the problem.

Any news on this ?

[Jonh Wendell (wendell)]

Hi, thanks for your bug report.

Is this still an issue for you?
If yes, it seems your ctrl-f shortcut has been overrided. Try to open System->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts and look for ctrl-f there.

Tell us if it solves the problem.

[Nanley Chery (nanoman)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[akorpija (akorpija)]

I've added a post to the bottom of this bug along with a screenshot of what pops up and a possible reason for why it occurs...

[akorpija (akorpija)]

Okay so while trying to fix another bug I'm having with my laptop backlight not turning off, I used the following command to add to xbindkeys in terminal:

xbindkeys --defaults > /home/alex/.xbindkeysrc

however i'm not too sure if that's what changed the function of CTRL+F for me

i've deleted xbindkeys and that file

I've also attached a screenshot of what I believe is xterm, which is what pops up when i push CTRL+F

Under System==>Preferences==>Keyboard Shortcuts I'm not finding any CTRL+F commands, and I'm also not finding anywhere that I can add it so that I can have CTRL F pop up the Find field in any program such as Firefox, my File Browser, etc...

I'm worried since I use Ctrl F all the time...

[akorpija (akorpija)]

BY THE WAY

I'm now running Ubuntu 8.04 x86_64

[akorpija (akorpija)]

I've found what i believe might be the solution to this as it was posted as a problem for other users who had installed xbindkeys...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=195255

since the xbindkeys-config didn't work for me, I had to use gedit ~/.xbindkeysrc and I simply changed the line

# set directly keycode (here control + f with my keyboard)
# "xterm"
# c:41 + m:0x4

to control + g so now i have my search back, although i'm sure those could be removed altogether for the same effect

Also, in case you cannot edit that file because it doesn't exist, you can create it by using the following command:

xbindkeys --defaults > /home/alex/.xbindkeysrc

Anyway, hope this garble helps anybody else with a similar problem

[xteejx (xteejx)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.