I've just upgraded to hoary, and now I'm seeing something that looks a lot like bug #8146: my windows key is no longer able to be assigned to keyboard
shortcuts, and the existing shortcuts I had that use it don't work anymore.
I've tried to use the altwin:super_win workaround described in comments 16 and
18 of #1390, but I get "Error activating XKB configuration". The output of the
commands that error dialog suggests are:
I've just upgraded to hoary, and now I'm seeing something that looks a lot like
bug #8146: my windows key is no longer able to be assigned to keyboard
shortcuts, and the existing shortcuts I had that use it don't work anymore.
I've tried to use the altwin:super_win workaround described in comments 16 and
18 of #1390, but I get "Error activating XKB configuration". The output of the
commands that error dialog suggests are:
andrew@trogdor ~ $ xprop -root | grep XKB NAMES_BACKUP( STRING) = "xfree86", "pc104", "us", "inet(hpi6)", "" NAMES(STRING) = "xfree86", "pc104", "us", "inet(hpi6)", "" gnome/periphera ls/keyboard/ kbd
_XKB_RULES_
_XKB_RULES_
andrew@trogdor ~ $ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/
layouts = [us inet(hpi6)]
model = pc104
overrideSettings = false
options = [altwin altwin:super_win]
I'm not sure what package is responsible, so I'm leaving as UNKNOWN, but CCing
Daniel Stone because he probably knows :)