i believe this could be a driver issue independent of Unity. Could you try to assign the left super key to some other function and see if it works for that.
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone any suggestions as to how to get more information on this or how > to get the left Win key working? I have tried changing the setting in > Keyboard > Layouts > Options > Alt/Win Key Behaviour away from default and > back but to no avail. > If it is of any interest I have the problem in both Unity and Unity-2d. > I note that I am not the only one to see this issue. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to unity. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/778717 > > Title: > Left Win key not working as Super in Unity after upgrade to 11.04 > > Status in Unity: > New > Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: > New > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: unity > > After upgrading 10.10 to 11.04 the left Win key does not work as Super, in > fact it appears to do nothing. The right Win key *does* work as Super. > On a fresh install of 11.04 on a separate partition on the same machine both > Win keys work as Super. > In Keyboard > Layouts > Options > Alt/Win Key Behaviour is on Default. I > have not yet tried changing that setting and changing it back in case that > destroys evidence that someone may ask me to provide. > The same symptom is seen when I select Unity 2D. > If I log on as a different user then both Win keys work as expected. > > ProblemType: Bug > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 > Package: unity 3.8.12-0ubuntu1 > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2 > Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686 > Architecture: i386 > CompizPlugins: > [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,resize,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,session,unityshell] > Date: Fri May 6 20:37:15 2011 > InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) > ProcEnviron: > LANGUAGE=en_GB:en > PATH=(custom, user) > LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > SHELL=/bin/bash > SourcePackage: unity > UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-06 (0 days ago) > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/778717 Title: Left Win key not working as Super in Unity after upgrade to 11.04 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
