Comment 16 for bug 741869

This bug is the main cause for bug 950160.

Super+P is the only way to tell Windows 8 to toggle external display. It's expected that on new laptops come with Windows 8, BIOS will only sends out Super+P for the hot key to switch external display, and this key will not work in Ubuntu.

Super key should not be consumed by Compiz/Unity, if this key is used in combination with other keys. Compiz/Unity is not the only user of the super key. gnome-settings-daemon also uses this key for toggling external display.

This is a design conflict between Compiz/Unity and g-s-d. I would like to see a real solution worked out. Otherwise, we should let Unity to handle video-out keycodes, as proposed in https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/632632/comments/5