Ubuntu – Global Keyboard Shortcuts Broken in 14.04

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I've just upgraded my distribution from 13.10 to 14.04, which seems to have broken global keyboard shortcuts.

They are still present in the "Keyboard settings" as before. Although media keys are affected, so are other global shortcuts like Ctrl+Alt+T for Terminal. Other keyboard shortcuts work at an application level still, however.

I am also currently using Gnome Shell as my desktop environment, although the Alt+F2 shortcut for shell commands still seems to work.

Does anyone know of how this could have been caused?

Best Answer

It seams to be a bug, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1224732

On my laptop, they are two ways to bypass :

  1. my custom shortcut works if I use a more simple key binding. For example, Ctrl+Alt+ESC does not work, but SUPER+K works.

  2. use an alternative way to create a custom command with the CompizConfig Settings Manager launched with ccsm > Commands. Then create your key binding.

Remark in the both solution, my key binding Ctrl+Alt+ESC doest not work, but SUPER+K works. I think some key binding can not be used anymore.

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