I can confirm the bug on Karmic, specifically gnome-control-center 1:2.27.91-0ubuntu3. The problem, as far as I can understand -- and mind you, this is mostly speculation -- is this:
At the time of keyboard shortcut assignment, all modifier keys and a symbol is captured. In the non-working example above, what gets captured is {Shift+Mod4+(}. '(' is, unfortunately, another way of saying {Shift+9} (depending on the keyboard), so when keys get pressed at another time, what gets compared to the shortcut above is either {Shift+Mod4+9} or {Mod4+(}. I guess whatever is making the comparison is case-insensitive or something, because alphabetic keys work in Shift-combinations. *-key on the number pad does not have a Shift-accessed secondary key, so this works as well. Does this seem plausible to anyone else or am I way off base here? -- Shift+Mod4+( doesn't work as a keyboard shortcut https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311842 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to control-center in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs