If a user ran gnome-control-centre under oneiric before 2011-09 then Ctrl-Alt-t will not start a Terminal and cannot be obviously manually assigned either

Works for me, still a problem after doing all updates?

I just upgraded to the latest state of oneiric, but it still does not work.

Maybe the reason is that I use a keyboard with a german mapping, and oneiric is still unable to have a german keyboard setting.

Meanwhile a manual setxkbmap works (it recently didn't), but still no Ctrl-Alt-T.

regards

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Hello Hadmut, I've marked this as a dup of bug #820266, but in theory that should have been fixed. Please can you provide the information for Walter, and we can undup this if it's still happening in new packages.

Problem still exists after upgrading to the latest packages (10 Minutes ago).

And no, I cannot do apport-collect, because launchpad does not allow this. It denies for 821505, because this is marked as a dup, thus closing it for apport-collect, and it denies for 820266, because I am not the reporter of the bug.

As far as I can see, the reason is that the Ctrl-Alt-T is not listed as a keyboard short cut in the gnome-control-center (as it is listed on my natty machine).

Unfortunately I can't add it manually, because there's a + - Button (assumed to add new entries) but the button is disabled and does nothing.

I hate to say, but the way oneiric handles keyboard settings, locales, and such things, is a nightmare. This is broken by design. Why did they break a running system?

Helmut, save the apport report in a file:

apport-cli -f -p unity --save bug.apport

(Please read more on different ways on how to report in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs as I suggested in my first msessage)

and attach this file to bug 820266.

As for problems in Oneiric take into account that this is Beta 1, it is supposed to be broken, there is still Beta 2, Release Candidate and Final Release coming.

Sorry, I meant Hadmut, and not Helmut...

Since it's still happening with the latest, I've unduped this. You should now be able to run apport-collect against /this/ bug report.

apport information

apport information

Retitling per Didrocks in bug #820266.

  "@Paul: it is fixed, the issue is that people who ran gnome-control-center in oneiric before this fix won't have the key assigned.
For them, they have to run gnome-control-center, go on keyboard/shortcuts/launchers -> run a terminal and assign back Ctrl + Alt + T.

  People upgrading now from natty aren't affected."

Under launchers (german: Starter) there is no entry for starting a Terminal , and the +-Button is disabled, so it is not possible to add a new entry.

I have the same problem Hadmut has, here. No way to add a shortcut un gnome-cntrol-center/keyboard/launchers, +- button is disabled, and still no ctrl-alt-T...

Confirmed. Doing the following:

  1. <Super>
  2. keyboard settings
  3. Select "Launch a Terminal"
  4. Click on [+] or [-]

does not work.

I have found how to manually assign the shortcut. It is hutterly broken from a UI design point of view, but works otherwise:

1) go to gnome-control-center / keyboard / shortcuts
2) Launch a terminal says: "Unactivated" (or something like that, here it's "Désactivé")
3) don't try to click on +-, click on the word "Unactivated".
4) turns into "New shortcut": press ctrl-alt-T

Just found this out of luck, but the UI should really be fixed.

Ah ha! Kudos to Franck for the solution.

To all affected users, I'm closing this report as it seems something related to a particular set of issues early on Oneiric life that are unlikely to resurface, please feel free to reopen if you think this is not appropriate.