Quote Originally Posted by fredvej View Post
KNOPPIX 7.0.3 EN DVD and CD versions booted with cheatcode keyboard=dk xkeyboard=dk no3d into LXDE desktop environment

The keyboard shortcut Alt-F1 does nothing. It used to open the main menu, and as the mouse hater I am I really miss this. Can I configure something to activate this shortcut ?
The reason is that metacity from Debian/unstable, compiled with GTK3, no longer supports custom keybindings. For some reason yet unknown to me, the code was removed from the source. Since I depend on metacity as the only 2d alternative (boot option no3d) to compiz (3d) which looks and feels identical and accepts the same settings and themes, I was rather disappointed about this change, too. What you see in the dconf settings is my humble attempt to support Alt-F1 and Alt-F2 again, if metacity authors would redecide to support the setting again some time (I just copied the variables from gconf in dconf).

Actually, compiz-gtk from Debian/unstable is linked with the metacity libraries, so there was not much choice of keeping the old GTK2 metacity, unless I put everything on hold which would have made Knoppix non-upgradable. But unlike metacity, compiz has its own handling of custom keybindings, so currently, you only get Alt-F1 and Alt-F2 working if you use compiz, and they won't work with "no3d" with metacity.

Sorry about this. If you find a solution to let metacity (or a maybe an additional daemon?) handle Alt-F1, Alt-F2 and also the "Print" key again in "no3d" mode, please let me know.

Regards
-Klaus