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[Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 28 September 2011 07:48, Eylem Koca <eylemkoca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It may sound off-topic, but it's related I think: Up until Beta 2 was
> released, I had this "bug" (I don't know if it's fixed, as I had to do
>  a clean install on my laptop and didn't have time to install Beta 2
> yet). When I installed Gnome-Shell (yes, blasphemer) Alt-F2 did NOT
> work there at all. Somehow, I think Alt-F2 is too strongly tied to
> Unity and it just did not work with Gnome-Shell on Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 1
> (it's possible that it would not work on any other DE but Unity).
> Is Canonical's position that Gnome-Shell is not supported, or should
> the dev's make effort to have this functionality (and others,
> possibly, but that would be really off-topic to discuss here) work
> with Gnome-Shell (and other DE's a user might install) as well? I
> think it all comes to how Alt-F2 is implemented and therefore it is
> on-topic ;)

The broken keyboard shortcuts bug in GNOME Shell is
http://pad.lv/856884 and is a problem in Compiz. You can workaround it
with steps 1 and 2 on the bug's test case.

Jeremy