I just installed Oneiric and this doesn't seem to be fixed (or maybe my
problem is different).
The Launch terminal default keybinding, which launches gnome-terminal
(this cannot be changed anymore, Terminal is now missing from the
Default Applications settings, this is bad) indeed passes the
I just made a little test : I changed the value of
/desktop/gnome/applications/terminal/exec in gconf from gnome-terminal
to xterm and now xterm has the right settings.
So the real problem is indeed that default keybindings and custom ones
are somewhat started differently by gnome (or its