Great comment, Sam. This is getting complicated. Can I propose a simple
solution?

In comment 103 of this I described the original upstream bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165343

The maintainer insist it's fixed but I disagreed, so I opened another
against libgnomekbd as per his suggestion:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579658

Neither one seems to have gone anywhere.

PROBLEM: We can't bind-meta key combinations out of the box without
changing configuration and getting unpleasant side-effects.

OBSERVATION: Compiz' CCSM tool captures the right keys perfectly out of
the box.

SOLUTION: Delete the code in GNOME keyboard settings and replace it with
CCSM code.

Perhaps I'm overlooking some huge technical complexity here, and maybe
God kills a kitten every time the CCSM code is run, but really... it
better be a big kitten for us not to use it. I'm sure the right fix
involves patching libgnomekbd and blah blah blah but life is too short.
And 4 years of open bug is too long.

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