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A few broken hotkeys in 14.04 - toggle fullscreen and Shotwell save

Asked by Ipsod

I'm running a fresh install of 14.04. I've tried many different shortcuts for "Toggle fullscreen mode" in [All Settings->Keyboard] , including ctrl+alt+o, super+8, and tens of others. Once I change the setting, I alt+tab over to Firefox and try to make it fullscreen using the shortcut, and it doesn't work.

Other shortcuts, like "Toggle maximization state," are working properly. I've tested some of the shortcuts that I have tried by assigning them to another function, and they worked - it's just the "Toggle maximization state" functionality that's broken.

F11 does work to toggle fullscreen mode whether it's set as the shortcut or not, but it does nothing for gvim, and my F11 key is a miserable rubber chiclet.

I'm not sure if it's a related issue, but it is similar - ctrl+s doesn't work to save in Shotwell. It works in gedit and LibreOffice Writer (just tried to test it), but not in Shotwell

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Does the system have a make and model?

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Ipsod (ipsod) said : 		#2

It doesn't.

ASRock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
CPU INTEL|CORE I7 3770K 3.5G 8M R

I'm using onboard graphics on the video card and 4 different HDD's.

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Ipsod (ipsod) said : 		#3

correction: onboard graphics for video

I'm using a Kinesis Classic keyboard, but it should just be sending key codes, so I doubt that makes a difference. I've got 16Gb of ram, but I don't remember which make/model.

I'd add that 14.04 runs terribly. Very often a window will go gray while stalling out, and this isn't a low-end PC. On 12.04 I could have a video encoding process use 100% of the CPU and everything would still be snappy. On 14.04, I have to wait seconds to change between program windows, even when seemingly nothing is taxing the filesystem, CPU, or RAM. I'm not sure if that's related or not - seems not, but it seems so strange when 12.04 was so excellent out-of-the-box.

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Ipsod (ipsod) said : 		#4

I've fixed all of the problems I was having by uninstalling Ubuntu 14.04 and installing Linux Mint KDE.