Bug 387331 - when using compiz, many keybindings are not configurable.
Summary: when using compiz, many keybindings are not configurable.
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: compiz
Version: 8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kristian Høgsberg
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-11-16 18:13 UTC by Zack Cerza
Modified: 2009-01-09 07:26 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-01-09 07:26:33 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
metacity-bindings-1 (70.10 KB, image/png)
2007-11-16 18:13 UTC, Zack Cerza
no flags Details
metacity-bindings-2 (86.22 KB, image/png)
2007-11-16 18:13 UTC, Zack Cerza
no flags Details
compiz-bindings (58.80 KB, image/png)
2007-11-16 18:14 UTC, Zack Cerza
no flags Details

Description Zack Cerza 2007-11-16 18:13:18 UTC
Description of problem:
When compiz is in use, gnome-keybinding-properties won't show (or configure)
many keybindings. See attached screenshots for details.

Not sure if this is a compiz problem or a gnome problem...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
compiz-0.6.2-3.fc8.i386

Comment 1 Zack Cerza 2007-11-16 18:13:18 UTC
Created attachment 261571 [details]
metacity-bindings-1

Comment 2 Zack Cerza 2007-11-16 18:13:52 UTC
Created attachment 261581 [details]
metacity-bindings-2

Comment 3 Zack Cerza 2007-11-16 18:14:13 UTC
Created attachment 261591 [details]
compiz-bindings

Comment 4 Kristian Høgsberg 2007-11-19 17:17:15 UTC
You can see the keybindings that are active for compiz and metacity in

  /usr/share/gnome-control-center/keybindings/

50-metacity-key.xml and 50-metacity-desktop-key.xml describe metacitys window
and desktop bindings respectively and similarly for 50-compiz-key.xml and
50-compiz-desktop-key.xml.  Most of the metacity keybindings have a similar
compiz setting, but I guess we're not exposing those in the compiz key binding
files.  It should be easy enough to track down the missing key bindings in
compiz's gconf tree and add them.

Comment 5 Zack Cerza 2007-11-19 17:45:44 UTC
OK. Also, the 'plane' plugin (used if you don't want 'cube') appears to not have
a couple shortcuts implemented, such as the various "move this window to this
other desktop" actions. At least I couldn't get them to work. Separate bug yes,
but does affect this.

Comment 6 Zack Cerza 2007-11-19 17:51:15 UTC
Er, I missed something that might be important here. The gconf keys for compiz'
keyboard shortcuts in general seem to be tied to whatever plugin you're using,
e.g. cube, plane, wall. Won't that make this a lot harder?

Comment 7 Kristian Høgsberg 2007-11-19 18:21:30 UTC
Yes, you're right... hm, that does make it a lot harder.  Not sure what the
right fix is, long term I could see GNOME standardizing on a set of windows
manager keys, independent of any windows manager.  For example,
/desktop/gnome/windows-manager/key_bindings/{move_window,desktop_left,etc} or
something, that both metacity and compiz (and others) could read out.  This also
solves the problem of duplicated keybindings between metacity and compiz.

Comment 8 Zack Cerza 2007-11-19 20:02:23 UTC
That seems like the right way to do it. In fact,
/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager does even exist, though all 4 keys in
it (which are unrelated to key bindings) were deprecated in 2.12.

I see no reason why two different window managers would want to use different
gconf keys for their keybindings, let alone one window manager using different
keys depending some arbitrary factor...

Comment 9 Adam Huffman 2008-05-17 12:39:16 UTC
Yes, it's rather annoying that I can't switch desktops when using Compiz.  Does
this need to be reported upstream?

Comment 10 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 08:30:35 UTC
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Comment 11 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 07:26:33 UTC
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