On Mar 8, 2011 3:12 AM, "Max Rabkin"
I'm using XMonad.Config.Gnome (at least, its keybindings) under Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick), through gnome (with XMonad set as my window manager). My xmonad.hs is copied from another machine, which is running Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid), where it works fine.
Instead of opening the "run application" dialog, pressing mod-p (mod = left super) blanks the screen for about a second. When it comes back on, there is still no dialog.
Has anybody else encountered this, or know a solution?
This is a "feature" of this version of Gnome. That is, it is intentionally chosen behavior. Some laptops have an emable external display button that emits Super-P so Gnome eats it and tries to enable a second monitor. It is not configurable. If you feel sufficiently motivated, you could download the source and comment that bit out. There is a bug report, but it has largely been ignored since it behaves as designed.