Cannot set Emacs key bindings

[Barry Warsaw]

Fully up-to-date, freshly installed Zesty desktop.

chromium-browser no longer seems to honor Gnome keybindings, e.g.

% gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme
Emacs
% gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-key-theme
'Emacs'

Also confirmed Emacs is the keyboard theme via gnome-tweak-tool

However, chromium-browser on Zesty does not honor these keybindings either in the url bar, or in text entry windows such as this one. This is a regression from Yakkety.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: chromium-browser 53.0.2785.143-0ubuntu1.1307
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-26.28-generic 4.8.0
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

@cmiller: ping; any progress on this bug?

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

I'm moving this bug from gnome-desktop to unity because ubuntu-gnome-desktop does not seem to exhibit the same problem. It might still be a chromium issue though so keeping that.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Barry, is this still an issue with the latest version of chromium in artful/bionic ?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for unity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for chromium-browser (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]