Comment 90 for bug 12153

Hi Guys - firstly I apologise for not being very technial here - I'm quite new to Linux.

For me setting "Super is mapped to the win keys" or "Meta is mapped to the win keys" (they appear to do the same thing, and shouldn't one of them be selected by default anyway? I've installed Ubuntu on four completely different kinds of machine and have had this problem on all of them) only partially resolves the issue.

I can now assign "Windows+T" for launching the terminal, "Windows+D" for showing the desktop, but I can't assign "Windows+N" (or, indeed, Windows+anything) for opening the home folder (ie starting Nautilus). I /can/ assign Ctrl+Alt+N to open the Home Folder, just not anything beginning with the Windows key. Same thing with lock screen - "Ctrl_Alt_L" works, "Windows+L" doesn't.

For clarification - when I say "Windows+Key" I'm talking about "Mod4+Key" (as I said, I turned on "Super is mapped to the win keys" - without that I could only use the Windows key (super as it was called then, not Mod4) on its own).

I don't know how relevant it is, but I've always been able to use the windows key properly in CompizConfig, and I note that settings such as the Expo can be changed in Keyboard Shortcuts in gnome or in CompizConfig.

When Pedro says "this has been fixed upstream" does that mean the fix is yet to be released, or has been released? If the fix involves users changing the "Super is mapped to the win keys" setting then I really think the default should be changed on there - a novice would never find that!

Sorry for the over-use of brackets in the post, I just love brackets.