I've had this bug for a while, I'm on gnome-2.10 now, and it happened with 2.8. For some reason I can't get applications such as epiphany and evolution to execute when a certain windows key+letter is pressed. The weird thing is I can bind the Winkey+anything to launch the terminal and it launches fine. I tried creating a new user account thinking my configuration files might be causing the issue, but the same problem exists there. Gnome recognizes the Windows key as "Mod4" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Press and hold Windows key 2. Press a letter on the keyboard 3. Wait for a program to open Actual Results: Nothing is executed. Portage 2.0.51.20-r5 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.11-cko4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-cko4 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.11 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r8 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -ftracer -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -ftracer -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://130.207.108.134/pub/gentoo ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.ccccom.com" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cups curl dvd emboss encode esd fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glx gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg junit libg++ libwww mad mikmod mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mp3 mpeg ncurses network nls no_wxgtk1 noantlr nobcel nobeanutils nobsf nobsh nocommonslogging nocommonsnet nojdepend nojsch nojython nolog4j noregexp norhino noxalan noxerces nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png ppds python quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse sse2 ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis win32codecs xine xml2 xprint xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
Same problem. Binding Window-(anykey) to Lock Screen for example in the Keyboard Shortcuts does not work. Binding the same key to Run Application (or many, many others) does work. This thread has some discussion... http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-326948.html
Gnome bug upstream regarding problem: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302245 Related RedHat bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=139167
see links in #2
