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gnome-control-center package

default keyboard-shortcut Ctl-Alt-L does not lock screen

Bug #354790 reported by Stefan Stasik on 2009-04-03

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #9441: the locate pointer option breaks other keybindings. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

The default keyboard shortcut binding Ctl-Alt-L that locks the screen seems to have stopped working on my system with an upgrade to Jaunty beta. When I try to re-map the action to a different key-binding, it still does not work.

Thank you, Stefan Stasik

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Toby Bartels (tobybartels) wrote on 2009-04-15:

Hi Setfan, I don't know if anybody's told you this, so I comment here:

Probably, you have enabled the option System -> Preferences -> Mouse -> Locate Pointer -> Show position of pointer when the Control key is pressed. If you turn that off, then probably Ctrl-Alt-L will work again. Your bug is now marked as a duplicate of Bug #9441, and there is some more information there.

If what I said about the Locate Pointer option is WRONG in your case, then you should come back here and leave a comment here explaining that this did not fix your problem. Good luck!

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komputes (komputes) wrote on 2009-04-15:

I would like to mention that Bug # 9441 covers one aspect of this bug - the "Locate Pointer" issue. But there is still the aspect of not being able to use Ctl-Alt-L to lock the screen unless a gnome application is running has been run beforehand.

I have no problem in marking Bug # 354790 as a duplicate of Bug # 9441 but we need to keep Bug # 354792 open as a separate issue which affects users who want to lock the screen immediately after logging in, before opening any applications (completely unrelated to Bug # 9441).