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user888379
user888379

Reputation: 1477

Disabling super (windows) keybinding in Ubuntu-12.04

As an emacs user, I would like to have <super> generally available to me as a modifier. I've had some success in disabling Ubuntu's default hotkeys, but am having trouble with <super>-s. The default behavior is to launch the workspace switcher, and I haven't found a way to change that. I've been using CompizConfig Settings Manager for my successful changes.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1255

Answers (2)

juanleon
juanleon

Reputation: 9390

  1. Install compizconfig-settings-manager (sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager)
  2. Start it (ccsm) and go to Ubuntu Unity Plugin -> Behavior
  3. Disable the keybinding "Key to starts the switcher"

If that does not work, go for the hard way:

  1. Start gconf-editor
  2. Edit->Find. Search for <Super>s (with the <>), with the "Search also in key values" option clicked.
  3. Edit the matches at your leisure

Upvotes: 5

Bart
Bart

Reputation: 31

If you don't (want to) have compizconfig-settings-manager installed, you can use

gconftool-2 --set "/apps/compiz-1/plugins/unityshell/screen0/options/show_launcher" --type string ""

to disable the key mapping

( http://linux.die.net/man/1/gconftool-2 )

Upvotes: 1

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