Whilst I agree that it's undesirable to have two parts of the system fight for the same keypress, it seems this is well known. From wikipedia:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key "Under graphical environments (such as Gnome or KDE) 'Alt'+'PrintScrn/SysRq'+key combination generally only leads to a screenshot to be dumped. To avoid this Print Screen feature the magic SysRq combination should be additionally prefixed by Ctrl, becoming 'Ctrl'+'Alt'+'SysRq'+key. " -- ALT+PrtSc not recognised https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/642792 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to metacity in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
