Jeremy Thanks for the advice. I ran 'unity --reset' and was able to install keyboard shortcuts without any problem.
My thanks to yourself and everybody else who came forward to offer advice and help. Please mark this bug as closed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/841761 Title: unable to set keyboard shortcuts Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: System Settings->Shortcuts. The shortcuts do not respond when trying to edit a shortcut, nor is there any response when pressing Backspace to clear. Problem is present in both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/841761/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

