Hotkey bindings are not configurable

[John Gill]

While it is great to have keyboard accelerators for the indicator applet, having them hard-wired in the code and un-configurable isn't great.

In my case I have had super-M set to minimize windows in compiz for some time.

Having the indicator grab focus is going to take some brain re-training.

In general, keyboard accelerators == good, un-configurable accelerators == bad.

[Ted Gould (ted)]

  importance wishlist
  status confirmed

[Krister Swenson (thekswenson)]

This is EXTREMELY annoying.

[Denys Rtveliashvili (rtvd)]

Yes, it is exceptionally annoying. It is annoying to an extent that I had to hack the code to disable these shortcuts completely and I am not the only one who does that.
Please at the very least keep the shortcuts in gconf instead of having it hardcoded.

[weronika (patena)]

Thirding the exceptionally annoying. My window manager uses Super-M and Super-S for something else, and I'd like to get those keybindings back. At least being able to turn off indicator-applet hotkeys completely would be a reasonable option if we can't customize them.

Denys - how did you do that? Any chance of a patch?

[paul hover (paulhover)]

I was used to use "super aswd" to maximize in one directoin and "super shift aswd" to minimize in one direction the windows fitting the place with compize maximize. And super x and shift super x to maximumize and minimize the windows.

With this anoying bug I cant use this with Ubuntu 10.10 but this is on of the most important feature in the Windowsmanager for my changing the shortcuts is not practicable for me because I asdw is intuitive (at least for a PC gamer) and asdw is easy to reach with the left hand (so your rigth can stay on the mouse).I use other

@Denys Rtveliashvili can you pleas post your work-around? I would be very happy to have back the freedom to use super s&m for my personal shortcuts.

[Jan Vornberger (javlp)]

I already voiced by opinion against a default Super+S shortcut when it was discussed to introduce it in bug #334544 . Unfortunately it seems to made it way into Ubuntu regardless. So I will repeat my comment here, as this is still a very annoying problem:

I agree that a keyboard shortcut for this functionality is good to have, but it will be rarely used throughout the day, so please don't "waste" a handy shortcut like Super+S on this. Make it a two modifier thing. Maybe Ctrl+Alt+S (in line with things like Ctrl+Alt+D to show the desktop) would be a good alternative. From what I can tell it also doesn't conflict with anything on my Lucid Lynx installation. It is also a more universal solution, since there are still a few users with keyboards that don't have a super key.

As the author of Bluetile ( http://www.bluetile.org/ ) I would appreciate this change, since Bluetile's standard keyboard shortcuts already include Super+S and my Ubuntu users repeatedly run into this problem. I am not really willing to change Bluetile's default shortcuts, just because Ubuntu likes to waste such a 'premium' shortcut like Super+S for a task that will be rarely performed.

Other power users (using emacs, awesome wm, amarok or other keyboard-heavy software) seem to agree. So please consider changing this.

[Smeuuh (smeuuh)]

Please provide a way to customize it. Hard-coded bindings are not wishlist, they're real bugs and deserve to be treated as such.

[trustin (trustin)]

<Super>+S is hard-bound by the 'Indicator Applet Complete' of the GNOME fallback session (12.04). To work around this issue, I had to remove it and use the 'Indicator Applet' instead. With no clock applet, I find I work way too much! ;-)