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I've noticed some inconsistency in case sensitivity of gnome shortcuts and am looking for some help and clarification...

From what I can tell, shortcuts are case-sensitive but must be assigned (using the settings GUI) with the upper case version first.
For example, I can not assign super+h and then shift+super+h as shortcuts but if I do them in the opposite order I can do this. (I've confirmed this isn't due to a conflict by dumping dconf and grepping for the bindings.)

However, if I use the terminal to assign a shortcut (a la dconf write KEY VALUE) to set a shortcut, I CAN assign shortcuts in any order so I'm guessing this just has to do with how the GUI interprets the key input.t][

Further, it seems that some web-app specific shortcuts will conflict with system-wide shortcuts due to case insensitivity. For example, google slides/docs: increase font size with shift+control+. will conflict with a system keyboard shortcut of control+. But if I disable the system-wide shortcut I can use the web-app shortcut without issue.

  1. Do any other users experience the same thing? (gnome 3.32)
  2. Is there anyway to strictly enforce case-sensitivity in shortcuts?

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