Unable to disable Run dialog on Alt-F2

[Carl G]

I'm old, and i've had Alt-F1-n mapped to 'Move to workspace X' forever.

So I disabled Alt-F2 and remapped it to 'Move to workspace 2', which works but It also still brings up the modal Run dialog, despite being disabled.

[Jussi Pakkanen (jpakkane)]

I can confirm that this happens with Oneiric daily ISO.

Steps: start dash, go to keyboard settings, select shortcuts, select "move to workspace 2", map it to alt-f2. Pressing alt-f2 moves to workspace 2 and also brings up the run dialod.

[Bln (boris-le-ninivin)]

I used to use Alt-F2 to bring up a terminal on the screen. I've set "Alt+F2" as the shortcut for "Launch Terminal" in [System settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Launchers] (/apps/metacity/global_keybindings/run_command_terminal in gconf), and it works, but it spawns below the dash home...

Workaround : set the key /apps/compizconfig-1/profiles/Default/plugins/unityshell/screen0/options/execute_command to something else than "<Alt>F2" ("<Alt>F3" or anything).

[Bln (boris-le-ninivin)]

Ah and log-out and in again to see the changes.

Notes :

  - It took me two tries to get this working (on the first try it reverted the default key-binding (Alt+F2) in gconf), and so, has no effect that time. Maybe that's a mistake I did, but in the case it happens to some other people, one might consider to submit a bug.
  - On the second try it has worked well, excepted that right after the first time (and ONLY on the first time) I have hit the new "dash-home" shortcut (Alt-F3 in this case) which had bring the menu on the screen, at the exact moment when I have pressed "Esc" to get rid of that said menu ; Unity seemed to have segfaulted, in the way that the unity interface has suddenly disappeared from the screen, and has been back fully functional after few seconds.

I hope that helps.