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I have Ctrl+Alt+T assigned as my keyboard shortcut to launch a Terminal window, but it stopped working after upgrading to 12.10.

I have verified that it is still set in the Keyboard Shortcuts settings menu, and have verified that other shortcuts (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+C to open calculator) work.

I have also tried using assigning different key combinations to Terminal, to see if that helps (it doesn't), e.g. unassigning Ctrl+Alt+C from calculator, and instead assigning it to Terminal. No dice.

Any ideas what might be going on?

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Have you tried to start the app to set shortcuts via Bash? So you might see error messages if there are any? –  Mrokii Oct 28 '12 at 0:57
that would be a good idea, but i haven't a clue what that keyboard shortcut menu's command is... no commands that start with keyboard-, and nothing under gnome- that seems to be keyboard related... –  TJ Ellis Oct 28 '12 at 1:10
oh, solved it on my own though! your comment sparked the idea of adding a trigger for a custom command -- in this case, i explicitly called gnome-terminal; this works. –  TJ Ellis Oct 28 '12 at 1:11

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Solved it on my own, after having an idea sparked by @Mrokii.

In the Keyboard Shortcuts menu, I went to the Custom Shortcuts section, and added a new shortcut assigning Ctrl+Alt+T to the command gnome-terminal. This works!

There must be something screwy with my settings for default terminal... But I'm not going to worry about that, so long as my shortcut works.

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yup, my default terminal was set to something that wasn't installed! I guess at some point I decided i liked rxvt-unicode better than gnome-terminal (though I can't recall why now), and then when I upgraded to 12.10, it uninstalled rxvt-unicode, while leaving my default terminal setting the same -- the shortcut wasn't working because it was calling a command that didn't exist. –  TJ Ellis Oct 28 '12 at 1:19

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