Improvement in the default keyboard shortcuts (lock screen and shutdown menu)

[Ghislain Antony Vaillant]

To improve the user experience, I suggest the following changes in the default keyboard shortcuts :
- CTRL+ALT+L for locking the screen
- CTRL+ALT+DEL for firing the shutdown menu

These improvements will add better consistancy between the different DEs and also more comfort from Windows users. Myself, I use Xubuntu on my netbook and Ubuntu on my main machine and find the different shortcut for locking the screen between the two rather confusing and unecessary.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: xubuntu-desktop 2.152
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic 3.2.21
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 5 12:11:21 2012
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xubuntu-meta
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Marc-xfce (marc-xfce)]

Created attachment 5379
add a ctrl+alt+l shortcut to lock screen

using libxfce4ui 4.11.0-4
Manjaro distribution.

We already have the Ctrl+Alt+Del shortcut to lock the screen.

I Gnome/KDE, the default shortcut is Ctrl+Alt+L

Is it possible to add this shortcut to the default XFCE shortcuts ?

Here is a patch in /etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml that should do the trick.

Thanks in advance,
Marc

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jannis Pohlmann (jannis-xfce)]

Pushed to master:

commit 635521fe76d5969d49f2da98a8013e32fa394848
Author: Marc Maurice <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Jul 25 15:32:01 2014 +0200

    Add <Ctrl><Alt>l shortcut for screen locking (xflock4) (bug #10728)

[Sean Davis (bluesabre)]

Fixed in the package libxfce4ui (4.11.2-0ubuntu1) vivid

Ctrl+Alt+L has been added.

We will not be changing the Ctrl+Alt+Del shortcut that has been used in Xubuntu quite a long time.

Thanks!

[Elfy (elfy)]

Ctrl+Alt+L and Ctrl+Alt+Del both run xflock4.

We'll not be changing Ctrl+Alt+Del.

Users can easily set their own preferences.