incorrect keybinding displayed: /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/activate_window_menu

[j0rd4n]

Binary package hint: gconf-editor

In gconf-editor,

/apps/metacity/window_keybindings/activate_window_menu

active_window_menu shows value "<Alt> space". This value actually (also?) controls the "<Alt> right mouse click" keybinding. I was trying to unbind the "<Alt> right click" menu, but I couldn't find it. After some research online i found this thread that answered my question:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+question/2520

gconf-editor should be changed to display the correct (or both?) values for activate_window_menu

gconf-editor 2.22.0
GNOME version 2.22.3
Ubuntu 8.04

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 28 17:26:23 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gconf-editor
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gconf-editor 2.22.0-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: gconf-editor
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and help make Ubuntu better. From what I understand, you seem to have a problem with Alt+Right Click being mapped to activate the window menu, and not being user configurable. If that is the case, then this is not an issue with gconf-editor or gconf, but an issue with Metacity itself. What you want is for Metacity to make this keybinding configurable and expose it through GConf.

[Marnanel Thurman (marnanel)]

"activate_window_menu" is unrelated to the window menu coming up with alt+right click. The text is not incorrect. On my system, disabling "activate_window_menu" makes no difference to alt+right click. If it does on your system, that is a bug.

I suggest you change "/apps/metacity/general/mouse_button_modifier" to some other modifier, such as "<Super>" for the Windows key.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report j0rd4n , It has been a long time without any comment or a duplicate in this bug report and It is possible that the bug has been fixed. May you please try to reproduce it with the latest Stable Release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal and add the respective comments to the report? You can learn how to get that release at http://www.ubuntu.com/download . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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