On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 12:08 -0400, Dan Winship wrote: > On 10/19/2009 10:57 AM, iain wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 10:34 -0400, Dan Winship wrote: > >> On 10/19/2009 06:46 AM, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > >>> On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 09:29 +1100, William Madden wrote: > >>>> to the window I want. It would be better if alt-tilde on its own > >>>> brought up the display and started changing windows of the current > >>>> app. > >>> > >>> I don't know what alt-tilde is used for, but it's an awful combination > >>> for people who use keyboard layouts with dead-keys. > >> > >> On a US English keyboard, ` and ~ are on the key above Tab, > > > > Thats the problem though, key placement: On a UK English keyboard ~ is > > the shift option on the key beside the return key on the complete > > opposite side from the tab key and alt-~ would just be awkward to use. > > Um... ok, so I can't tell if my last message was actually unclear or if > you just didn't finish reading it, but: > > 1. The binding is supposed to be "Alt + whatever key is above Tab on > *your* keyboard". That is, it is defined in terms of a key that is > physically located in a particular position, not in terms of a key > that generates a particular keysym. > > 2. Currently that is not implemented, and the binding is just "Alt+`" > for all users. This is a bug. (Specifically, it's bug 596231.) > > 3. We haven't bothered to fix the bug yet because it has not been > conclusively decided that we're keeping the binding, or that we're > keeping it bound to "the key above Tab, whatever that may be". > > -- Dan What if there is no key above the tab? On my laptop, a Toshiba Satellite M100, the tab is the upper-most key on the left side - although I guess you could argue that the 1 or the Esc key is 'above' it. ________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
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