Cannot assign Ctrl-Alt-T to "Run a terminal"

Bug #390527 reported by Alexey Kotlyarov
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

I want Ctrl-Alt-T to be a hotkey for "Run a terminal" in Gnome. Choosing "Key combinations" from "Preferences", I can set it, but pressing it does nothing. However, if I create a new command in that window, with "terminator" as run string, it works. If I assign the "XF86Reload" key to "Run a terminal", Terminator opens too (it is set as default terminal emulator in Preferred Applications.
Some more investigating: Ctrl-T works fine. Ctrl-Alt-W, Ctrl-Alt-U, Ctrl-Alt-S all work fine.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnome.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: meta-gnome2
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-9-generic x86_64
UnreportableReason: Это не оригинальный пакет Ubuntu

affects: meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu) → gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

thanks for the report, that works fine for me, I've just assigned that combination to open gnome-terminal, which keyboard layout are you using? does it works fine with a new user created on your system? thanks.

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Alexey Kotlyarov (koterpillar) wrote :

It works with the new user (guest user which I got from the user switcher). I'm using Russian and English layout, ans also SCIM. However, running SCIM and adding those layouts in guest doesn't reproduce the problem; neither does killing everything SCIM-related solve it under my account. What might be the difference?

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turbolad (turbolad995) wrote :

I have the same problem and I'm using a UK keyboard and UK locale.
Pressing Ctrl Alt and T does nothing.

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bgruber (bgruber) wrote :

I've noticed that ctrl-alt-t never works on with left ctrl in anything (including xev), but right ctrl works fine. I also have my left ctrl and caps swapped.

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

Ctrl+Alt+T is the default shortcut to open a terminal in Unity or GNOME.

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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