Unity restarts when launching a terminal with a shortcut incorporating the Mod4 or 'windows' key

[Sameer Morar]

Binary package hint: unity

To reproduce:

Ensure that a keyboard shortcut is setup to launch a terminal:
1) Select Applications
2) Search for "Keyboard Shortcuts", and open the Keyboard Shortcuts preferences
3) Scroll down to "Run a Terminal", and set a shortcut using the 'windows key' (I use Mod4+T)
4) Close the Keyboard Shortcuts preference window
5) Launch a terminal using the shortcut

When the shortcut is pressed, the screen flashes white, the unity panels disappear, open windows lose their borders and move up and to the right. After a short while (1-2 seconds), the new terminal appears, and unity reloads.

UPDATE:
Upon further investigation, it appears that this is related to the Mod4 key. When I press Mod4 and any other non-numeric key, unity restarts.

This may be related to #630407, however, I'm not making it a duplicate, as this bug doesn't mention unity restarting.

$ lsb_release -rd && apt-cache policy unity
Description: Ubuntu maverick (development branch)
Release: 10.10
unity:
  Installed: 0.2.36-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.2.36-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.2.36-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

Sameer, I think this was a dup of
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/632460 can you test with the
latest Unity and see if it's fixed for you?

Mark

[Sameer Morar (smorar)]

Mark, yes it is a dup of #632460. This issue is resolved for me in the latest version of unity.

Thanks :)