Shift-F10 keyboard shortcut should emulate right click

[Hugo Heden]

Binary package hint: ubuntu-desktop

Shift-F10 keyboard shortcut should, IMHO, emulate mouse right click (which usually brings up a context menu in whatever application that has focus).

But when compiz-fusion is enabled, compiz-fusion *overrides* Shift-F10 to mean Slow Animations (at least when System->Preferences->Appearance is set to Extra). This is disturbing.

Using Shift-F10 to emulate mouse right-click an old MS Windows heritage I think, just like Alt-F4 (for closing a window), that people coming from the MS Windows world use. (Is there some other "standard" keyboard short-cut in the Linux/Unix world to emulate right click?)

Work-around: Install compizconfig-settings-manager, run it, navigate to General Options -> Actions. Expand the "General" node. Find "Slow Animations", confirm that it is set to Shift-F10, and set it to something else.

Running Ubuntu 7.10.

[Matt Neilson (ichthyoboy)]

Changing package to compizconfig, since compiz overrides normal keybinding

[Matt Neilson (ichthyoboy)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago for an older relase of Ubuntu, 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.

[Hugo Heden (hugoheden)]

Thanks for triaging.

It is unfortunately not possible for me to check whether this is still an issue. (I can't enable the "Composite Extension", I get a pop-up that says it is "not available".) (So, I am not in a position to complain if you close this bug.)

I guess one should probably try with a clean install of Intrepid Ibex (8.10) when it is released shortly. Anyone up for it? Does Shift-F10 emulate a mouse-right-click (as I suggest it should) or does it mean "Slow Animations"?

This bug can perhaps be viewed as part of a larger issue: Should the Composite Extensions in Ubuntu follow the accessibility guidelines (and/or other guidelines) defined by the Gnome HIG? (See for example http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/input-keyboard.html.en )

Perhaps we should file a new bug that suggests that the Ubuntu Composite Extensions follow the Gnome HIG? Thoughts, anyone?

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

Hi Hugo, is this still an issue for you? Could you try with Ubuntu Karmic?
Thank you, and good luck

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for compizconfig-settings-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]