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When ever I press the S key it activates my 'screen Keyboard' in the 'Universal Access'. And when pressing L it opens Gnome Help.

This is a very weird bug and super annoying as I need to copy and paste 'S' and 'L' to type.

I have tried reboot.

This happened after i did a:

sudo apt-get purge cozy*

As I didn't use it and never really did set up cozy.io
I'm not sure it has anything to do with cozy, but it happened sometime after that.

Anyone know where this setting could come from?
I have tried looking at my keyboard shortcuts, and can't find it there. I also tried to just override it by making a new shortcut and set it to S, but that' not possible. Where I just get this message: The chortcut "S" cannot be ued because it will become impossible to type using this key.

UPDATE:

I think it could have something to do with this. I tried to download this torrent: Serie episode magnet link
And I can see now that I got a .wmv file, as where I should get a .mkv file. I tried to open the file both with vlc and totem.

UPDATE:

This seemed to happen because of a bug in Gnome 3.20

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Had The Same Problem

Steps to Resolve the Issue;

In gnome settings - click on the keyboard option -- then click on Universal Access -- then change the corresponding setting by clicking on (I.e. Turn On- Screen Keyboard on / off) and type a new short cut action I.e. -- Alt+t or Alt+s -- etc to avoid the short cut cant be used error message, this should work. I used the Alt key before a letter but its entirely up to you what you use before the letter key.

This will change the short cut and resolve the issue for the -- S -- key, also for the -- L -- key, you need to go to -- launchers -- and click on --launch help browser -- and repeat the steps choosing a short cut of your choice.

Update!

Make sure any short cut that says Disabled in Universal Access is changed with a different short cut -- Alt+r -- etc as the same happened to me and I had to change all disabled shot cuts, then reboot system.

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  • This worked for the 'L' key, but not the 'S' key Commented Apr 25, 2016 at 16:04
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    Make sure any short cut that says Disabled in Universal Access is changed with a different short cut -- Alt+r -- etc as the same happened to me and I had to change all disabled shot cuts, then reboot system. Commented Apr 25, 2016 at 16:45
  • It worked! If I wanted to send a bug report on this, do you have any idea why it's happening and what is actually causing this? Commented Apr 25, 2016 at 17:09
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I got the same problem yesterday, but it seems it was a bug introduced by package updates, today a bunch of gnome-shell updates came in and the problems were solved. Do you use the Gnome staging PPA? Actually I'm using it to try out Gnome 3.20 apps, but it's a staging ppa and therefore not marked as stable. Try sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade and your problems should be solved with the l key, too.

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You can reset the keybindings, that helped me because i had the same problem after some updates in 16.04 TLS and gnome 3.20.1 something

use 

gsettings reset-recursively org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings gsettings reset-recursively org.gnome.metacity.keybindings gsettings reset-recursively org.gnome.mutter.keybindings gsettings reset-recursively org.gnome.mutter.wayland.keybindings gsettings reset-recursively org.gnome.shell.keybindings

Try this I hope this fixes your problem.

Also you can see all your keybinding by simply running

gsettings list-schemas | grep keybindings
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