Assigning CTRL to "Show location of pointer" (now "Pointer Location") means that applications cannot capture CTRL
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
GNOME Tweaks |
Expired
|
Low
|
|||
Ubuntu GNOME |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
gnome-tweak-tool (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Low
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
I have recently noticed that when one turns on the option in the gnome-tweak-tool in order to "Show location of pointer" when CTRL is pressed, application are no longer able to capture the CTRL key. For instance VMs in Virtual Box no longer do anything when CTRL is pressed simply because they do not know it is being pressed, so I can't copy and paste stuff in VMs, nor cancel commands in Terminal, so it is very annoying. It also means that in Virtual Box if I press my right CTRL key instead of my left one (as they have different features where the left acts as the guest key, and the right one as the host key - the host key would normally be used to toggle Virtual Box capturing) it still does nothing, even though it's Virtual Box that should do something rather than the VM.
Turning off the option in gnome-tweak-tool resolves the problem, but I would still like to be able to have it on without side-effects.
---
OS Information:
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 15.10
Release: 15.10
Codename: wily
Flavour: GNOME
GNOME Version: 3.18
Package Information:
gnome-
Installed: 3.18.0-1~wily1
Candidate: 3.18.0-1~wily1
Version table:
*** 3.18.0-1~wily1 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
3.16.2-2 0
500 http://
Changed in ubuntu-gnome: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in gnome-tweak-tool (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
importance: | Medium → Low |
Changed in gnome-tweak-tool: | |
importance: | Unknown → Low |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
tags: | added: xenial yakkety |
Changed in gnome-tweak-tool (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
Changed in gnome-tweak-tool: | |
status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
summary: |
- Assigning CTRL to "Show location of pointer" means that applications - cannot capture CTRL + Assigning CTRL to "Show location of pointer" (now "Pointer Location") + means that applications cannot capture CTRL |
Changed in gnome-tweak-tool: | |
status: | Incomplete → Expired |
I have also filed a report on this issue upstream: https:/ /bugzilla. gnome.org/ show_bug. cgi?id= 761563