Re: [gnome-flashback] Shortcuts / Hotkeys for Menu broken?

[Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 ubuntu com>]

Thanks for your investigations. As this is Ubuntu-specific issue,
let's track it in https://launchpad.net/bugs/1299784. It is in my TODO
list, so I'll eventually look at it.

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Dmitry Shachnev

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Lanoxx <lanoxx gmx net> wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
>
> On 26/05/14 07:46, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> > On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Lanoxx <lanoxx gmx net> wrote:
> > Quite strange — the file that corresponds to "System" tab is
> > tree/panels/keyboard/01-system.xml.in
> > (https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-control-center/tree/panels/keyboard/01-system.xml.in),
> > and that file is identical in the current g-c-c git, the patched g-c-c
> > in Ubuntu 13.10 and unity-c-c, in all three places it just has "log
> > out" and "lock screen" entries. So I don't know how it could happen
> > that you have two additional entries. Maybe you were using some
> > third-party PPA?
>
> Thanks to your help I found the cause. It seems that other applications
> can register their own shortcuts by installing files to
> /usr/share/gnome-control-center/keybindings. Because Ubuntu 14.04 uses
> Unity Control Center by default the keybindings installed into
> g-c-c/keybindings are ignored by u-c-c. In u-c-c/keybindings there are
> symlinks to the files in g-c-c, but the metacity shortcuts were not
> symlinked, so they don't appear.
>
> > > It would be nice to get this back in the keyboard section of the control
> > > center.
> >
> > It would be nice to find out the origin of your patch, but meanwhile I
> > created this branch for unity-c-c (which is only used in Ubuntu):
> > lp:~mitya57/unity-control-center/main-menu-and-run-dialog
>
> They come from the following file:
> /usr/share/gnome-control-center/keybindings/50-metacity-system.xml
>
> which is shipped by metacity:
>
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/metacity/tree/src/50-metacity-system.xml.in
>
> I just checked and the file is present on both systems. I have now
> manually created the necessary symlink and now the shortcuts appear in
> the shortcuts tab of u-c-c. I am building gnome-panel and metacity both
> from git, but I think thats not the reason. I also have the original
> metacity package installed, so u-c-c should pick that up and create the
> symlinks?
>
> > > P.S. Alberts pushed a fix for the clock applet today that refreshed the
> > > locations after a new location has been added, did you see that?
> >
> > Yes, good work Alberts :) I'm waiting for the new release discussion
> > to finish, and then I'll either use the new release, or package a Git
> > snapshot.
> >
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> > Dmitry Shachnev
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