Keyboard shortcut help screen does not show real bindings

Bug #942460 reported by Stefan Bader
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Bug Description

After changing some key bindings in system settings, the keyboard shortcut help screen which is shown when holding the super key still does show the old bindings. I think it would be cool, if that would actually get updated. That way one would be able to get a quick overview of key bindings even on a system which is not the own one. Or may check for some bindings which may have been remapped and not used that often.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Andrea Azzarone (azzar1) wrote :

Can you give a list of key bindings that don't update?

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Stefan Bader (smb) wrote :

<super>+<shift>+<up,right,down,left> changed to <super>+<ctrl>+<...> though I realize that this could be a bit of a problem as the keys can be redefined individually but the help screen only displays things in a way that assumes one common prefix and cursor keys...

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Andrea Azzarone (azzar1) wrote :

We have already a bug for the "vp switcher shortcut" #939517. By the way ,ost of the shortcuts in the shortcut overlay are not hardcoded :)

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Stefan Bader (smb) wrote :

:) Ok, seems I straight went to replace exactly those keys which are hardcoded (likely to save space in the box). Unfortunately I had to since navigating with <super>+<shift> is quite unfortunate for me. It is just that slightly odd angle but it really did hurt physically after a while...

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Andrea Azzarone (azzar1) wrote :

> :) Ok, seems I straight went to replace exactly those keys which are hardcoded (likely to save space in the box).

Vp switcher shortcut was (we have a branch to fix this) hardcoded for another reason.

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status: New → Confirmed
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