Re: Using the super/windows key for keybindings

[Seth Galitzer <sgsax ksu edu>]

I've noticed this, too.  Even when just assigning hotkeys from the 
System Settings Keyboard applet.  Right super works, but not left.  When 
I set the key assignemnt, even if I use the left super, only the right 
one works.  Both are reported as Mod4.

Seth

On 05/14/2011 08:03 PM, Tim Cuthbertson wrote:
> I'm currently writing an extension (for tiling windows) that I want to
> add a lot of global keybindings for. There are two problems with this:
>
> Firstly, it may be hard to get my work merged since I'm pretty sure
> the only way it can currently be done is by adding to mutter's
> all-keybindings.h, and the keybindings will be useless without my
> extension. However, I'm sure a lot of other extensions could be in a
> similar boat, and I'm hopeful that something can be done to make these
> settings modifiable at runtime rather than baked in at compile time.
>
> The bigger problem for my prototype right now is that I can't seem to
> add any keybindings that work with the left super (windows) key. I've
> tried adding both:
>
> keybind (key_win_t,         handle_win_t, 0, BINDING_PER_WINDOW,
> "<Mod4>t", _("Win-t"))
>     and
> keybind (key_win_t,         handle_win_t, 0, BINDING_PER_WINDOW,
> "<Super>t", _("Win-t"))
>
> Both of these work and do indeed trigger my javascript callback when
> the *right* super key is pressed (with "t"), but neither work when the
> left super key is used.
>
> Is this a known bug? Is there any way to work around it? I'm trying to
> mimic the keyboard shortcuts for bluetile, so it's reasonably
> important that I be able to use the super key in shortcuts...
>
> Cheers,
>   - Tim.
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