Hotkey conflicts with usual input method hotkey

Bug #685664 reported by Cris Dywan
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Synapse
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Bug Description

The default hotkey Ctrl+Space conflicts with SCIM, which has the same by default. So Synapse will silently not come up if SCIM input methods are enabled.

Possible solutions I can see:
- Synaptic is brand new, it might be easiest to choose a different default hotkey
- Provide two default keys.
- Display a big warning that something else uses the same hotkey. Though this means all users of SCIM and Synapse have to customise hotkeys to use both normally.
- Display a big warning, provide a second hotkey, suggest the second hotkey.

Revision history for this message
Alberto Aldegheri (albyrock87) wrote :

We will display a "big warning" :)

<super>+space can't be used because some keyboard doesn't have the super key
<alt>+space can't be used because it's used in a lot of Window Managers

Changed in synapse-project:
milestone: none → 0.2.2
status: New → Fix Committed
Michal Hruby (mhr3)
Changed in synapse-project:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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