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Cirelli94

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Registered: 2016-12-13

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[SOLVED] Pressing Alt is like pressing Alt+Meta

Hi!
I would like to set some custom shortcuts but when I press Alt it accept it as Alt+Meta, I can't understand why! This is not so relevant, but I can't use some shortcut with only Alt, I should change all of them! Alt+F4 is understood for example, and is even more strange, but others are not...
Thanks  for your help!

[Here](http://i.imgur.com/ngYg1o6.png) a screenshot!

Last edited by Cirelli94 (2016-12-19 16:47:21)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Pressing Alt is like pressing Alt+Meta

Gnome? On wayland? Tried xorg?
Monitored input with xev an/or evtest?
Got a pattern on what works as expected (shell? WM? native wayland clients) and what not?

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Cirelli94

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Registered: 2016-12-13

Posts: 37

Re: [SOLVED] Pressing Alt is like pressing Alt+Meta

Yes I'm using gnome on Wayland! I skip to xorg and we'll see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GD … rg_backend
I have not monitored input.
Everything else works as expected!

Cirelli94

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Registered: 2016-12-13

Posts: 37

Re: [SOLVED] Pressing Alt is like pressing Alt+Meta

I added a shortcut in keyboard settings with

guake -t

for Alt+a (or Alt+Meta+a....) and I've switched to Xorg! Problem solved!

Last edited by Cirelli94 (2016-12-19 17:59:16)