Super+period Keyboard Mapping Not Working.

[GarThor]

Distribution

Linux Mint 22.3 - Cinnamon 64-bit

Package version

Cinnamon 6.6.7

Graphics hardware in use

GeForce RTX 4060, NVIDIA-SMI 580.126.09 Driver Version: 580.126.09 CUDA Version: 13.0

Frequency

Always

Bug description

I am attempting to add a keymap/shortcut similar to the windows "emoji-menu" to my fresh install of mint.

I have installed the application Emote from Flatpak, but when I try to map it to Meta/Super+Period using the keyboard bindings menu, it instead just outputs Super_L, and then exits before adding the period.

Steps to reproduce

• Open Keyboard Shortcuts.
• Add a shortcut for Emote

- Double click "unassigned" to enter a keyboard binding - Depress "Super" and "Period" (.) together - Observe the result is an entry with simply "Super_L" instead of "Super+." or "Super_L+."

Expected behavior

Super+. should be map-able using the keyboard shortcuts systems setting menu.

Additional information

I'm coming to mint from PopOs/KDE and Windows, and this seems to work fine with the exact same setup on both of those. It also worked on Ubuntu/KDE, when I was using that last year.

[GarThor]

As am additional note: Mapping other keys with the "super" modifier seem to work... just not period for some reason... >_>

[mtwebster]

That key and semicolon are being interecepted by ibus (which assists with keyboard layouts in Cinnamon 6.6).

Run:

gsettings set org.freedesktop.ibus.panel.emoji hotkey "[]"

Then you should be able to teach that combination properly.

[GarThor]

works perfectly, thank you! :D

[ernstki]

@GarThor If this resolves it for you, can you please close the issue? This will reduce burden on the Mint maintainers. ✌️

[GarThor]

It does, thanks!