Alt+arrows keyboard shortcuts don't invoke Back and Forward navigation
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unity |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Daniel van Vugt | ||
unity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
TESTCASE:
1. Open a gnome-terminal.
2. While holding Alt, tap arrow keys: Up, Down, Right, Left
3. Verify the terminal shows the keycodes were received as text "ABCD".
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION:
Summary summarizes it all. Noticed after the latest bunch of updates.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: firefox 11.0~b7+
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64
AddonCompatChec
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/
/dev/snd/
BuildID: 20120309125033
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xc4500000 irq 46'
Mixer name : 'IDT 92HD81B1X5'
Components : 'HDA:111d7605,
Controls : 17
Simple ctrls : 10
Card1.Amixer.info:
Card hw:1 'Generic'/'HD-Audio Generic at 0xc4420000 irq 48'
Mixer name : 'ATI R6xx HDMI'
Components : 'HDA:1002aa01,
Controls : 6
Simple ctrls : 1
Card1.Amixer.
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Channel: beta
Date: Tue Mar 13 00:31:51 2012
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
IpRoute:
default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlan0 proto static
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.3 metric 2
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=
RfKill:
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
RunningIncompat
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-01 (11 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 12/01/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.26
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: 1436
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: 59.24
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-
dmi.product.name: HP ENVY 14 Notebook PC
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
Related branches
- Didier Roche-Tolomelli: Approve
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Diff: 82 lines (+30/-5)2 files modifiedmanual-tests/AltCombos.txt (+10/-0)
plugins/unityshell/src/unityshell.cpp (+20/-5)
affects: | firefox (Ubuntu) → unity (Ubuntu) |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → High |
assignee: | nobody → Didier Roche (didrocks) |
milestone: | none → 5.8.0 |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in unity: | |
assignee: | nobody → Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Additional info.
It started to work again after some minutes. Perhaps it's related to a crash that has happened somewhere in the HUD department. I understand that I'm poking a black box here but I think this is related because HUD is activated by Alt. May be it was catching it early somehow…