keyboard shortcut regression, some pairs of desktop switching keys don't work

[Seth Arnold]

Under 12.04 LTS running Unity, the keyboard switching keys worked in pairs: control+alt+up+right moved to upper right, control+alt+up+left moved to upper left, etc.

But 12.10 Unity does not work this way for all combinations: control+alt+up+right and control+alt+down+left always work; control+alt+down+right _sometimes_ works. Control+alt+up+left _never_ works. (The display doesn't even change.)

Thanks

unity:
  Installed: 6.12.0-0ubuntu0.2
  Candidate: 6.12.0-0ubuntu0.2
  Version table:
 *** 6.12.0-0ubuntu0.2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     6.8.0-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: unity 6.12.0-0ubuntu0.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-22.34-generic 3.5.7.2
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
Date: Mon Jan 28 15:26:22 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-18 (102 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2013-01-20 (8 days ago)

[Seth Arnold (seth-arnold)]

In Raring, three diagonal directions work flawlessly every time: Down+Left, Down+Right, Up+Right.

Up+Left still fails every time.

50% of the way there! :)

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Up+left still fails with unity 7.2.0+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1.2 on Ubuntu 14.04. Moving in any other directions work flawlessly.

[Will Cooke (willcooke)]

Sorry folks, but as part of the bug clean up ahead of 16.04 I'm marking this as invalid because it affects an Ubuntu release which is now unsupported. If you can still recreate this bug in a supported release please do open a new bug and we can triage it for consideration in the 16.04 development cycle.

Additional: This seems to be related to some hardware limitations on keyboards not handling ctrl+alt+up+left at the same time, where as the other combinations work.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

> I'm marking this as invalid because it affects an Ubuntu release which is now unsupported.

Well... while this was reported against a release which has now reached EOL, it was also mentioned and tagged as reproducible in 14.04.

Anyways, for those following, bug 1489205 has been filed.