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cannot seem to bind <ctrl><alt>-<space> for activation

Bug #903566 reported by Sri Ramkrishna
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Do
Fix Released
Critical
Chris Halse Rogers
gnome-do (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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Bug Description

There seems to be something off with trying to set a binding with <ctrl><alt><space>. It's broken in both Ubuntu 12 and Fedora 16. <Ctrl> is recognized as <Primary> and I cannot use it for some reason.

My convo with ROAF:
17:22 < RAOF> sri: Oh, wow. Seems that Ubuntu 12.04 has the same problem.
17:23 < RAOF> Except my <Ctrl> seems to be recognised as <Primary>. Whatever
              *that* is.
17:24 < RAOF> Huh. And <Super>+Space is recognised as <Hyper>+<Super>+space.
17:24 < RAOF> But works.
17:24 < RAOF> I suspect that something's borken libdo's keybinding stuff.

Thanks :)

Changed in do:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Critical
milestone: none → 0.9
assignee: nobody → Chris Halse Rogers (raof)
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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote :

Huh. The code that does this hasn't changed. Perhaps this is a GTK# change? More debugging needed.

Changed in do:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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unwrecker (unwrecker) wrote :

After manual replace <Primary> to <Ctrl> works fine.

Changed in do:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote :

Ok. I've worked around this locally, but it really seems to be a behaviour change (and likely a bug) in GTK - specifically gtk_accelerator_name - when setting <Ctrl>+space it's definitely being fed a modifier state equal to GDK_CONTROL_MASK, but it's returning <Primary>+space.

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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote :

Urgh. Who'se been smoking crack?

The same problem hit gnome-control-centre, and was fixed with:
commit e46180ec18192a7954b4e75bca1594ec3ca3ae62
Author: Bastien Nocera <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Oct 24 19:06:27 2011 +0100

    common: Fix handling of <Primary>

    As used in the new GTK+ 3.2.1.

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748444

diff --git a/panels/common/eggaccelerators.c b/panels/common/eggaccelerators.c
index 5a672ba..71f2433 100644
--- a/panels/common/eggaccelerators.c
+++ b/panels/common/eggaccelerators.c
@@ -178,6 +178,20 @@ is_hyper (const gchar *string)
 }

 static inline gboolean
+is_primary (const gchar *string)
+{
+ return ((string[0] == '<') &&
+ (string[1] == 'p' || string[1] == 'P') &&
+ (string[2] == 'r' || string[2] == 'R') &&
+ (string[3] == 'i' || string[3] == 'I') &&
+ (string[4] == 'm' || string[4] == 'M') &&
+ (string[5] == 'a' || string[5] == 'A') &&
+ (string[6] == 'r' || string[6] == 'R') &&
+ (string[7] == 'y' || string[7] == 'Y') &&
+ (string[8] == '>'));
+}
+
+static inline gboolean
 is_keycode (const gchar *string)
 {
   return ((string[0] == '0') &&
@@ -310,6 +324,12 @@ egg_accelerator_parse_virtual (const gchar *accelerator,
              len -= 7;
              mods |= EGG_VIRTUAL_SUPER_MASK;
            }
+ else if (len >= 9 && is_primary (accelerator))
+ {
+ accelerator += 9;
+ len -= 9;
+ mods |= EGG_VIRTUAL_CONTROL_MASK;
+ }
          else
            {
              gchar last_ch;

Changed in do:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-do - 0.8.5-2ubuntu1

---------------
gnome-do (0.8.5-2ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/03_fix_keybindings.diff:
    - Fix keybinding code with GTK 3.2.1, which changed gtk_accelerator_name.
      Fixes "keybindings with <Ctrl> display as <Primary>" (LP: #903566)
 -- Christopher James Halse Rogers <email address hidden> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:06:50 +1100

Changed in gnome-do (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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