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I'm trying to bind Ctrl+Shift+W to something in emacs under Ubuntu. Nothing happens when I press that key combination. When I call describe-key on that key combination, nothing happens.

Is Ubuntu intercepting that key combination?

Update:

I'm running emacs in graphical mode under the default Ubuntu UI (whatever that is). If I type C-S-q or C-S-s they work fine, but when I hit C-S-w, emacs behaves as if nothing happened.

Is there a way to see if the window manager is intercepting the key press?

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I can rebind C-S-w on ubuntu 11.10 – kindahero Apr 13 '12 at 4:16
My Ubuntu 10.04, GNU Emacs 23.1.1 ... C-S-w rebinds fine – Peter.O Apr 13 '12 at 8:45
We need more information to help you, give us some code. – Daimrod Apr 13 '12 at 9:51
What versions of Ubuntu and Emacs are you running? This works for me in Ubuntu 11.04 and Emacs 24.0.50.1 (built from source). – Fran May 4 '12 at 17:03
this happened in 11.10 and 12.04, emacs 24.0.50.1 from source. – benhsu May 4 '12 at 20:43
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