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thesultanofswing

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Registered: 2011-07-29

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Weird Shortcut Problem in Gnome 3.4

Whenever I close a Nautilus window or a gnome-terminal window to come back to my desktop, all of my keyboard shortcuts stop working (including Alt-tab). So, basically, they only work when I'm already working in some window. I've tried to search everywhere but cannot find a solution. Any help would be appreciated.

Last edited by thesultanofswing (2012-05-18 06:43:10)

thesultanofswing

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Registered: 2011-07-29

Posts: 4

Re: Weird Shortcut Problem in Gnome 3.4

BUMP. Any ideas?

limescout

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Registered: 2012-05-20

Posts: 24

Re: Weird Shortcut Problem in Gnome 3.4

I think this happens with me as well; sometimes I'll get out of a gnome app like nautilus and my keyboard shortcuts don't work, the letters just get typed as if there was no modifier key.  I'm using i3 though, not Gnome, so it might be an issue with a specific application, or something completely unrelated

thesultanofswing

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Registered: 2011-07-29

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Re: Weird Shortcut Problem in Gnome 3.4

Ok, this is happening because I'm running Docky alongside. Killing Docky makes the problem go away. Any clues on how to solve this (other than using another dock) ?

Inxsible

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Registered: 2008-06-09

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Re: Weird Shortcut Problem in Gnome 3.4

Check to see if the Docky keybindings are in conflict with your user defined ones. Maybe they cause a race condition. Other than that, use a different dock

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