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Note: the answer I've accepted works correctly in Precise Pangolin (12.04). It does not work correctly in Oneiric Ocelot.

Original text:

I have an application in which I want to use alt-F1 to access some specific functionality. Unfortunately, Unity in Oneiric Ocelot (11.10) grabs this key combination and shows the launcher. I would like to disable or bypass that behavior, but I have no idea how to accomplish it.

I have read How do I deactivate F1 and F10 keybindings in gnome-terminal? and looked around in all the places pointed-out there and elsewhere, in both the CompizConfig Settings Manager and the gconf-editor. Unfortunately, the alt-F1 combination is nowhere to be found or disabled. In fact I have successfully prevented Gnome/Compiz from intercepting the keybinding in previous distributions (Lucid Lynx and older).

Can anyone tell me where I can prevent Unity from interpreting my keybindings before my application has a chance to respond to them?

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in ccsm (CompizConfig Settings Manager) > Ubuntu Unity Plugin it's sitting right there on the Behavior tab

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  • Are you referring to the 'Key to put keyboard-focus on launcher'? It seems I've already set that one to 'Disabled'. Otherwise, I can't find any mention of F1 (on the Behavior tab or elsewhere in the Ubuntu Unity Plugin settings). – Confusion Oct 20 '11 at 06:03
  • It has been fixed in Precise Pangolin: setting the binding to 'disabled' or something different in ccsm solves the problem. – Confusion Apr 28 '12 at 15:03
  • thanks, this did the trick, although I had to actually install ccsm. – Espen Schulstad May 02 '12 at 09:29
  • There's another place in ccsm where you should disable it: ccsm > Gnome Compatibility > Show Main Menu – wheleph Jan 15 '13 at 22:26
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This is an ugly hack

edit, as superuser, the following file

/usr/share/compiz/unityshell.xml

and change 

    <option name="execute_command" type="key">
           <short>Key to execute a command</short>
           <long>Key to open a folder or execute a command</long>
           <default>&lt;Alt&gt;F2</default>
    </option>

to something like:

    <option name="execute_command" type="key">
           <short>Key to execute a command</short>
           <long>Key to open a folder or execute a command</long>
           <default>&lt;Super&gt;F2</default>
    </option>

Logout and login.

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