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Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: Jan 2017
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OS: Chrome
Pri: 3
Type: Bug-Regression



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Unable to lock screen with keyboard when Search key is remapped

Project Member Reported by afellin@google.com, Dec 20 2016

Issue description

Chrome Version       : 56.0.2924.28
OS Version: 9000.29.0
Other browsers tested: N/A


What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Remap search key to Control (or never have one on an external keyboard)
2. Press either ctrl+shift+l (old shortcut) or search+l

What is the expected result?
The computer locks

What happens instead of that?
For ctrl+shift+l, a notification pops up that the screen lock shortcut has changed.
For search+l, ctrl+l gets sent (selects address bar).

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UserAgentString: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 9000.29.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.28 Safari/537.36



 
Components: UI>Input>KeyboardShortcuts
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)

Comment 2 by ketakid@google.com, Jan 24 2017

Status: WontFix (was: Untriaged)
Mapping the search key to the control (a vital security related key) will cause this issue. Please remap it to some other key and this should work.

Comment 3 by afellin@google.com, Jan 25 2017

Yes, the screen lock shortcut works if I map another key to search.

But I have no other use for the search key than locking the screen, so it's pointless to lose another key. I regularly use all of ctrl, alt, esc, and backspace, so remapping any of those keys to search is not a workable solution.

It seems that Mod4 gets mapped to Search now, so that is a usable key on my keyboard, but not all keyboards have that key available.

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