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wuxb

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Registered: 2012-09-13

Posts: 29

[Gnome-Shell] Switch between overview and desktop

My X1 carbon laptop only have a Left Win key (Left Super) and I usually attached my laptop to an external keyboard that only comes with a Right Win key (Right Super). It's Kinesis Advantage if you wonder.  I Found that I can only choose one of the key to "Switch between overview and desktop" in gnome-tweak-tools (in "Keyboard and Mouse" category).
As I frequently switch between my laptop's keyboard and the external keyboard, I really need the both keys working all the time so that I don't have to manually change the setting all the time.
The combination keys such as "Super + s" are not that good.
I tried several places including the tweak-tools and dconf-settings but found no workarounds ... Please help!

phw

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Registered: 2013-05-27

Posts: 318

Re: [Gnome-Shell] Switch between overview and desktop

Yeah, I have the same issue, just the other way round. No idea why my laptop only reports a "Right Super", since it is still physically on the left side. But that's how it is.

Unfortunately this is a known and unresolved bug in Gnome, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697116

They claim it is technically difficult to do, but since they already managed to get it right with the left button it should be possible to do the same with the right one, too. But maybe that's just my naive way of thinking...

I personally just live with it, I have additionally mapped "Super + Tab" to open the overview and use that as a workaround when using the "unsupported" keyboard.

wuxb

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Registered: 2012-09-13

Posts: 29

Re: [Gnome-Shell] Switch between overview and desktop

I personally just live with it, I have additionally mapped "Super + Tab" to open the overview and use that as a workaround when using the "unsupported" keyboard.

Thanks. It looks I also have to live with it.