Don't arbitrarily change keybindings

[btittelbach]

Hi,

• When activating shell-tile extension, my custom keybindings for Super+ArrowKey are changed without asking.

• There are no configuration options (not even in dconf) to change the keybindings shelltile uses.

• While shell-tile is active, keybindings for "maximize window" and "restore window" can't be changed so I can't manually restore my keybindings AND use shell-tile. (maximize/restore window keybindings are not needed anyway, since Super+Return already switches between these two states)

• Even worse, when I disable shell-tile in frustration, my keybindings are NOT restored.

That is really bad behaviour and sours the experience of what would otherwise be a very helpful tool.

[emasab]

Do you have the latest version ? I've removed the keybindings.

[detly]

I had the same problem (with meta+L for locking the screen) and updating fixed it 👍

[btittelbach]

I have the newest version. I can see where the keybindings were commented out in the code.

Issue remains though!

The moment I activate shelltile, my keybindings for Maximize/Restore Window are reset to Super-Up/Down and remain unchangeable while the extension is active. I can confirm that this is the behaviour of the newest version, that I restarted several times in between and that no legacy shelltile code is lying around somewhere.

My custom-settings for Maximize/Restore Window is to remove the keybind aka no key is bound to these functions

[emasab]

Ok, now I understand what's happening. When I've removed the keybindings I've added a piece of code that upon activation resets those values to the defaults, because the previous version removed the default keybindings in order to overwrite them. I have to keep that code for some time, if you want to overwrite those keybindings remove these lines in

~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/ShellTile@emasab.it/extension.js

self.keybindingSettings.reset("maximize");
self.keybindingSettings.reset("unmaximize");
self.keybindingSettingsMutter.reset("toggle-tiled-left");
self.keybindingSettingsMutter.reset("toggle-tiled-right");

[emasab]

or you can set those values to the default, so that reset will always revert to those values, following this tutorial

https://askubuntu.com/questions/65900/how-can-i-change-default-settings-for-new-users

[btittelbach]

I tried changing the default values which worked fine and does not interfere with semiautomatic shelltime upgrades.

Glad I can finally use shelltile without hassle :-) Still looking forward to a more permament solution though.