didrocks and pitti pointed me at this bug, which probably causes problems i've seen in gtimelog 0.6.1. It's not just Alt that gets eaten, but also ctrl-q, ctrl-e, ctrl-r, and ctrl-d (essentially all alt- and ctrl- accelerators defined for the app). I was confused because running it from lp:gtimelog worked fine, but a package built from the same source did not work. pitti then reminded me of debian/patches/force-gi which, as should be obvious, forces gi. Without that package-only patch, pygtk is used and everything works.
didrocks and pitti pointed me at this bug, which probably causes problems i've seen in gtimelog 0.6.1. It's not just Alt that gets eaten, but also ctrl-q, ctrl-e, ctrl-r, and ctrl-d (essentially all alt- and ctrl- accelerators defined for the app). I was confused because running it from lp:gtimelog worked fine, but a package built from the same source did not work. pitti then reminded me of debian/ patches/ force-gi which, as should be obvious, forces gi. Without that package-only patch, pygtk is used and everything works.