Does not grab <super>-space after login

[stoft]

After upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 (Unity) gnome-do does not grab <super>-space on login (I have Start GNOME Do at login and quiet mode set to true) but the process is running (as evidenced by ps -ef|grep gnome-do). If I then kill gnome-do and start it again (from term with gnome-do&) it starts grabbing <super>-space.

Let me know how I can provide logs for this.

[__alex__K (coopkont)]

I have exactly the same issue. Every time I restart I have to launch via the terminal and reassign the shortcut to the "Summon Do" action. It always resets to "Disabled" for some reason.

[Wiz of Id (trumbitta)]

+1 same bug
Also, gnome-do is way better than Unity (front and center, anyone?)

[Martin Vogel (marvodor)]

Is there a connection to https://bugs.launchpad.net/do/+bug/1000905?

Can you change the key binding in gconf-editor?

[Wiz of Id (trumbitta)]

I have a bunch of italian labels left in GConf-Editor (I recently switched from all-Italian to all-English) but Summon-Do is correctly set and the italian version of it is nowhere to be found...

Two Ubuntu releases ago, I had a similar issue and found that some random feature of Unity was using <super>-<space> by default, thus preventing Do to keep it for itself... but this time I wasn't able to spot it.

[Kohsuke Kawaguchi (kk-kohsuke)]

To understand what's going on, I created a wrapper shell script that redirects output from gnome-do. Ouput captured this way shows that during the session login, gnome-do is failing to bind <Super>space. The following message gets reported twice:

  (Do:16097): libd-WARNING **: Binding '<Super>space' failed!

If I add "sleep 3" to this shell script and delay the launch of gnome-do, it will bind correctly. So I'm currently using this as a work around.

Based on these observations, I wonder if Unity is grabbing <Super> before it reads my keybinding customization and releases it, and Gnome Do happens to be initializing at the same time or something. I don't really have any evidence for this, but I can't think of anyone else who's grabbing <Super>space.

I hope it aids the maintainers in tracking down the root cause.

[Carl-Eric Menzel (duesenklipper)]

I use <super>asciicircum instead of <super>space, but I'm facing the same problem. I have to manually bring up gnome-do after logging in. In the preferences, no summon key combination is set. If I set my combination here, it works, but only until the next logout.

I'll try Kohsuke's delay workaround next time I log out.

[Ramon (donramon)]

Same problem for me. I just reinstalled it and nothing has changed. The funny thing is that although I chose to remove it completely and then rebooted, when I reinstalled and launched it for the first time all the settings from the previous install where still there. Where is the config file for gnome-do?
BTW: it was running fine on the same computer upgraded from 11.10 to 12.04. I reinstalled from scratch 12.04.1 Friday night and then it was not working anymore.

[Dutch Slab (ds2k)]

+1