One Hundred Papercuts

Change "Lock Screen" keybinding to Super+L

Bug #530769 reported by Matt Perry
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Metacity
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One Hundred Papercuts
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metacity (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Current "Lock Screen" keybinding is Ctrl+Alt+L. Super+L is simpler, is more consistent with other Compiz window management shortcuts (Super+E for expo, Super+W for scale, Super+A for scale all workspaces), and is a familiar keybinding for Windows users (Windows uses Super+L for the same function).

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Matt Perry (mp) wrote :

milestone: lucid-round-10

Angel Abad (angelabad)
Changed in metacity:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: New → Unknown
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Vish (vish) wrote :

Assigning to desktop team ,after discussing with seb.

Changed in metacity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
importance: Undecided → Low
milestone: none → lucid-round-10
status: New → Triaged
assignee: nobody → Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team)
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Hm, what about systems which don't have a Super key?

Also, activating the screen saver lock is not really a window manager function. There are other keybindings like Ctrl+Alt+Del which also use Ctrl+Alt, and I figure quite a lot of users got used to it by now?

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David Siegel (djsiegel-deactivatedaccount) wrote : Re: [Bug 530769] Re: Change "Lock Screen" keybinding to Super+L

I think we should not hastily change this shortcut, based on what Martin
says. It's also unnecessary optimization, because locking your screen incurs
such a time penalty that the relative complexity of Ctrl-Alt-L is
negligible.

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote :

As Martin said, this isn't really a window manager function. The current key combination is handled by the media-keys plugin in gnome-settings-daemon, so it would need to be changed there if you wanted a new binding

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Matt Perry (mp) wrote :

Martin has a good point that I hadn't considered. It might be best to close this bug as invalid.

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Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote :

invalid as a paper cuts, see previous comment, (furthermore the patch is not specifying the right key). I tried also to see if we can specify a list for having both key, but nothing found.

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
assignee: Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) → nobody
status: Triaged → Invalid
Vish (vish)
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
milestone: lucid-round-10 → none
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Vish (vish) wrote :

Closing metacity task too as per the original reporter's comment.

@Angel Abad , you can close the upstream bug too.

Changed in metacity (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Invalid
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Angel Abad (angelabad) wrote :

Ok, bug closed in gnome bugzilla.

Thanks!

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Changed in metacity:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
status: Unknown → Invalid
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