#4646 HIGH Update.: Systemwide keyboard shortcuts break terminal apps (e.g. nano)

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#4646: Systemwide keyboard shortcuts break terminal apps (e.g. nano)
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  Reporter:  bemasc            |       Owner:  Eben     
      Type:  defect            |      Status:  new      
  Priority:  high              |   Milestone:  Update.2 
 Component:  interface-design  |     Version:  Build 650
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:           
  Verified:  0                 |    Blocking:           
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Comment(by grumbel):

 After a week playing with the OLPC I can say that having Sugar stealing
 Ctrl and Alt is really bad. Sure, the OLPC isn't intended for normal
 Linux/X11 apps, but in the end I have very little doubt that it will be
 used for them, since not each and every application will have a sugarized
 equivalent and there isn't a good reason to make running legacy apps
 harder then it should be, especially when the fix is so easy:

 The hand-keys aren't used for anything. From what I could figure out their
 only intended use is for thumbpad-scrolling, so why not use them for all
 global keybindings that Sugar might need in addition and leave Alt and
 Ctrl to the applications. This shouldn't cause any trouble for existing
 apps and still provide easy to reach keyboard shortcuts.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4646#comment:12>
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