Pause / Print Screen keys can't be set in Keyboard Shortcuts

I can confirm this on my desktop too. Note that even though the "Take a screenshot" key is initially assigned to Print, and Alt-Print is assigned to take a screenshot for the current window, neither worked for me initially (hence the attempt to fix it using Keyboard Shortcuts).

My keyboard is possibly strange in this regard: the "Print screen" key is shared with "Sys req", with one printed on top of the other. The Keyboard Shortcuts applet recognizes <Shift> Print, but using both <Alt> and <Shift> together with Print is registered as <Shift> <Alt> Sys_Req...

I can confirm this report. Exactly the same thing happens here. Oh, and I can't take a screenshot as well.

Thanks for your bug. That's known upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333576

We want to look on it for dapper

Not to mention that irregardless of which key you assign, it won't take a screenshot. Shoudn't it just launch gnome-screenshot? (which for completely incomphresable reasons has been moved to Applications/Utilities as if it was a program, when it really is an action, but thats a different bug altogether i suppose)

my mistake. I'm running compiz so metacity is not even loaded! i've put it in apps/compiz/general/screen0 en now its working

What's metacity got to do with this? Running sawfish here, and I can confirm that the printscreen action doesn't work. Other keybindings (mute, volume, etc) work fine.

There is some strange things in the checking (see my upstream comment: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333576#c2) but i'm not a expert about international key values and so don't know how to well fix that.

If it's not fixed in upstream before Dapper release, maybe we could use this ugly workaround to be able to use Print and Pause key anyway?

heres another one that might belong here
open up an ftp session and bookmark it with the ftp client that comes with ubuntu....now it will appear in the places menu exit out of that.
now hit print screen and see what happens.
it will open up that bookmarked session O_o
i don't know if this is related or a diffrent issue
~shane

The key ranges in the code are completely incorrect, as Guillaume's comment points out. While the code in the capplet is quite arbitrary in its selection of keys ('a' is bad, but '1' is okay?), the attached patch implements what I think the original code writer wanted.

Shane,
your problem is a different issue, already reported - bug 34062.

Thanks Guillaume and Gary for your work on that, this upload fixes the issue:

 control-center (1:2.14.1-0ubuntu4) dapper; urgency=low
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   * debian/patches/20_keybindings_allow_print.patch:
     - patch by Gary Coady <email address hidden>, fix keys range so print
       and pause keys are accepted again (Ubuntu: #33102)