[Lucid] Compiz expo plugin Super+S keybinding conflicts with indicator-applet Super+S keybinding to access session menu.

[Luke Yelavich]

When using classic GNOME with Compiz, I expect to be able to navigate to the session menu as well as other indicators by pressing Super + S. However, this is no longer possible, due to a recent change in compiz-plugins-main to use Super+S for the expo plugin.

Either the keybinding for the compiz plugin is re-assessed, or we change the keybinding for accessing the indicators in indicator-applet-complete with the keyboard.

 affects ubuntu/compiz-plugins-main

 affects ubuntu/indicator-applet

 affects indicator-applet

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Is the <Super>+S binding based on any other pseudo-industry standard (eg. use by other operating systems), or was it a random pick?

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

I think Super + S was chosen because it meant S for Session menu, as the session menu is what opens when Super + S is pressed with either indicator-applet-session or indicator-applet-complete loaded into the panel.

[Sean (phantasmigoria99)]

This bug is present in 10.04 LTS. Because 10.04 (desktop) will be maintained for another two years, please fix this bug. It is very frustrating.

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

Could a core-dev nominate the indicator-applet task to Lucid? I wasn't able to do so, it seemed to generate an OOPS.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

The problem would be solved if bug 554713 were solved and it would be possible to change the Super + S shortcut, however it would not solve the conflict in default ocnfiguration.

However, this does not affect unity as ALT+F10 is used to access indicator (and shortcuts to individual indicators are not supported), but it affects gnome-fallback with Compiz.