Left alt key not working after update to artful in cupertino layout

[Amir]

I updated my zesty mate to artful today. I switched to cupertino layout and win + alt doesn't bring the HUD.

[Etienne Papegnies (etienne-papegnies)]

Following updates the key combination for HUD activation is now ALT only.

[Amir (amirzolal)]

Alt only doesn't work either. At least witch chrome and Libreoffice. Any
mate tweak setting that needs to be enabled?

Thanks,

Amir

2017-08-19 23:31 GMT+02:00 Etienne Papegnies <
<email address hidden>>:

> Following updates the key combination for HUD activation is now ALT
> only.
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu-mate
> Status: New => Invalid
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> HUD not working after update to artful
>
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> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> I updated my zesty mate to artful today. I switched to cupertino
> layout and win + alt doesn't bring the HUD.
>
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[Amir (amirzolal)]

Also, the left alt key stopped working properly (meaning alt-tab, alt-F2 dont work anymore). And it doesn't activate the HUD.

Is there any remapping that took place and could be reversed?

Thanks, Amir

[Amir (amirzolal)]

XEV Output for left and right Alt key:

FocusIn event, serial 38, synthetic NO, window 0x3e00001,
    mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor

KeymapNotify event, serial 38, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    keys: 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
           0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

FocusOut event, serial 38, synthetic NO, window 0x3e00001,
    mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor

FocusIn event, serial 38, synthetic NO, window 0x3e00001,
    mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor

KeymapNotify event, serial 38, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    keys: 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
           0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Right:

KeyPress event, serial 38, synthetic NO, window 0x3e00001,
    root 0x254, subw 0x3e00002, time 990908, (54,31), root:(54,115),
    state 0x10, keycode 108 (keysym 0xffea, Alt_R), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 38, synthetic NO, window 0x3e00001,
    root 0x254, subw 0x3e00002, time 991126, (54,31), root:(54,115),
    state 0x18, keycode 108 (keysym 0xffea, Alt_R), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 38, synthetic NO, window 0x3e00001,
    root 0x254, subw 0x3e00002, time 993453, (54,31), root:(54,115),
    state 0x10, keycode 108 (keysym 0xffea, Alt_R), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

[Amir (amirzolal)]

This seems to be limited to cupertino layout (or maybe other layouts where alt should bring the HUD). I switched to pantheon layout and Alt works fine.

[Martin Wimpress  (flexiondotorg)]

I can't reproduce this. On a fully updated Ubuntu MATE 17.10 the HUD activated via Alt_L reliably displays the HUD when the Cupertino is in use.

We did release a few fixes a couple of days ago.

[Amir (amirzolal)]

After switching from Pantheon back to cupertino, HUD didn't activate after Alt_L and Alt+Tab and Alt-F2 didn't work.

I switched to Mutiny and then back to cupertino, now everything works.

I had vala-panel-appmenu (compiled on this computer) installed in zesty, maybe some settings had to be cleared?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package mate-hud - 17.10.8-0ubuntu1

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mate-hud (17.10.8-0ubuntu1) artful; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release. (LP: #1711857)

 -- Martin Wimpress <email address hidden> Thu, 31 Aug 2017 13:31:46 +0100