Comment 32 for bug 965921

This bug and workarounds should probably be turned into an askubuntu question. Better/cleaner to update workaround info there.

gcb <email address hidden> wrote:

>created one shortcut named 'uniquestring' and greped for that on my
>home
>dir... now i have a WTF?! look on my face when i noticed that the
>.config/dconf/user which is supposed to have my settings is a binary
>file
>
>assume i must write a parser tool using
>http://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.32/glib-GVariant.html to do anything
>with it
>
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>Title:
> gnome-shell most keyboard shortcuts not working
>
>Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
> New
>
>Bug description:
> Updated Bug Description
> =======================
>
> For Ubuntu 12.04, System Settings (gnome-control-center and gnome-
> settings-daemon) was patched to continue to support the gconf keyboard
> shortcuts used by Unity, Unity 2D, and the GNOME Classic sessions.
> Unfortunately, GNOME Shell now uses gsettings keyboard shortcuts so
> GNOME Shell ignores keyboard shortcut changes that get entered into
> System Settings>Keyboard>Shortcuts.
>
> This should be fixed for Ubuntu 12.10 but it's too late and
> complicated to fix for Ubuntu 12.04.
>
> One Workaround
> ==============
> Install dconf-tools
> Run dconf-editor
>Look in org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings or
>org.gnome.mutter.keybindings
>
> Another Workaround
> ==================
>Set a custom keyboard shortcut. This is useful if you want to set
>Ctrl+Alt+F to open Firefox for instance. In System Settings, click
>Keyboard. Switch to the Shortcuts tab and click Custom Shortcuts at the
>bottom of the list.
>
> Click the + button and add a name to remember the shortcut and the
> specific command you want to execute. Click Apply. Find the name in
> the list and click the right half of the row. "Disabled" should change
> to "New accelerator". Enter the keyboard shortcut you want to use.
>
> Ctrl+Alt+T to open the terminal and several other usual shortcuts from
> Unity have been added to GNOME Shell on April 17.
>
>
> ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
> Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.3.92-0ubuntu4
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.32-generic 3.2.12
> Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Tue Mar 27 07:07:44 2012SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
> usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
>  gnome-bluetooth 3.2.2-0ubuntu4
>  indicator-datetime 0.3.92-0ubuntu1
>
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