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Difficulties setting "tile to top" keybinding to `Super+Up` on GNOME 48.4

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Tiling Assistant is great, thanks for building it!

  • Fedora 42
  • GNOME 48.4
  • Tiling Assistant 53

I wasn't able to bind Super+Up to "Tile to top" in this extension. Super+Up was never accepted (no error message though). I did make sure to unmap Super+Up from the main GNOME keyboard shortcuts.

I had to use dconf-editor to manually write the keybind to get it to work.

At path /org/gnome/shell/extensions/tiling-assistant/tile-top-half, set the value to ['<Super>Up'].

This functions as expected, but the tiling assistant settings never renders the new keybinding. I was wondering if anyone knew what was broken / how to fix this?

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the binding in the Tiling Assistant settings and compare it with the dconf value at /org/gnome/shell/extensions/tiling-assistant/tile-top-half. Check why Super+Up is not accepted and why a manually written value is not rendered by the settings. Done means the binding can be configured in the settings and is displayed after being set.

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Tech stack
javascript, linux
Domain
desktop, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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Newbie friendliness
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