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[Colin Law <clanlaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 15 April 2012 20:57, Elias K Gardner <zorkerz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 15/04/12 17:45, Pedro Bessa wrote:
>>
>> I updated my system and selected left ctrl for hud, but now when I hold
>> CTRL, then hit V to paste, HUD opens and I paste in HUD. Super doesn't do
>> that.
>
>
> I changed the HUD shortcut to Control L and you are right Pedro the behavior
> is different than with Alt L set as the shortcut. Then I discovered when
> changing the shortcut back to Alt L (my preference) that the behavior had
> changed and was now similar to Control L. I believe this is because the
> default shortcut is Alt L, whereas when you manually change the shortcut it
> becomes Mod2+Control L or Mod2+Alt L. There appears to be no way to revert
> to the default without using CCSM (which also lets you set the shortcut
> simply to Control L).

Swiitch off Num Lock when assigning the key, that will allow Alt L to
be assigned [1].  I have not tried it with Ctrl.

Thanks to Evan Huus for pointing that out.

Colin

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/981628