You can't bind the <Super>S keyboard shortcut to anything in lucid lynx

[Ubuntu Tinkerer]

I can't bind the <Super>s keyboard shortcut to anything. This isn't doable through System>>Preferences>>Keyboard Shortcuts nor trough CompizConfig Settings Manager. When I press this combination I get a menu at the top right of Ubuntu's screen that shows various options for ending the current session (logout, shutdown, restart, etc.).

To reproduce the bug:

1. Enter System>>Preferences>>Keyboard Shortcuts.
2. Bind <Super>s (or Mod4+s as it sometime is referred to) to any command that you like.
3. Observe that <Super>s does not do what you intend it to do.

[David Tomaschik (matir)]

Reproducible here. Looks like internal usage overrides any keybinding.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Super + S is meant to be used by the session menu, but that's not a bug though

[Ubuntu Tinkerer (rationaltree)]

I want to inform you that the problem has disappeared for me. I can no longer reproduce it.

It is a fresh installation of Ubuntu that I have, and I observed that bug before the long list of initial updates you do.

Thanks for your help anyway.

[Ubuntu Tinkerer (rationaltree)]

Sorry for doing this again, but the bug is back! So the long series of updates I did to Ubuntu packages did not solve this.

[mayko (mayko-zmail)]

I also consider this as a bug: super+s used to be my favorite shortcut to toggle play/pause in amarok:D Any ideas?

[Tim Tierney (timtierney)]

This is definitely a bug. It needs the ability to be configured in the keyboard shortcut tool.

[MathUHenry (mathuhenry)]

I'm also having this problem. On one computer (an ancient desktop, I don't know the specs) <Super>s toggles window transparency (I can't seem to find that key binding in either the gnome settings or compiz - opacify is turned off)

On the Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop it gives the menu box no matter what key bindings I assign.

Both computers are set up almost identically with Lucid Lynx.

[MathUHenry (mathuhenry)]

A work around is available - actually, to be more accurate, I was able to assign <Super>s to what I wanted in System-Preferences-Keyboard Shortcuts

For those interested in window transparency, there is a program in the software center called transset-df. Install this, then make a key binding to the command /usr/bin/transset-df -p -t 0.3 to toggle transparency to 30%

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.