Comment 1 for bug 329644

Michael,

Thanks for reporting this bug, as it affects me as well.

I have only tried it on my home Desktop computer, a Core 2 Duo machine with an nVidia 9600GT (by Asus) graphics card, using the proprietary nVidia driver; a logitech Cordless Desktop keyboard and (optical) mouse (model Y-RAJ56A, with sysrq on the prtscr key); running Ubuntu 8.10 with all updates (but no backports).

I have also tried using the right alt key as "altgr" instead of the prtscr/sysrq key, as suggested at some sites (which I don't remember what the addresses were or how I got there...). Additionally, I have tried a number of other key combinations, such as leftalt+shift+prtscr/sysrq+k, to no avail.

I should note, however, that my TTYs are all functional (F1-F6), and respond as expected to alt+sysrq+R/E/I/S/U/B and alt+sysrq+K. It's only in the Gnome GUI that there is no affect, other than asking the user whether to save a screenshot. :-p

I have also tried setting different keyboard models (us105, Logitech Cordless Desktop [and "alternate"], and Logitech Cordless Desktop Optical), different combinations of "alt/win key behavior" and "compose key position" (in system>preferences>keyboard), mapping "print screen/screen shot" to different key combinations (in system>preferences>keyboard shortcuts), and lots of various button mashing. :-)

Please let me/us (Michael et al) know if there's any further information that may be of assistance in solving this problem. With ctrl+alt+backspace disappearing in the next release, I think it's going to be important to get this resolved as soon as is reasonably possible. (Please note that I don't mean to put undue pressure on anybody by saying this.)

Thanks, Devs, for all your work; you make Ubuntu great!

--Dane