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After updating to Xubuntu 14.04 the other day, I noticed Ctrl + Space stopped working in both Eclipse and NetBeans, but I cannot find where it's bound. Nor does it appear to do anything.

I have looked in the Settings Manager on the Keyboard, Window Manager, and Settings Editor (XFCE-specific) applets, but none of the commands are bound to that combination. Is there another applet that defines system-wide shortcuts?

David Harkness
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  • Do you have `synapse` installed? Synapse natively uses ctrl + space. – Parto Jul 15 '14 at 05:43
  • @Parto `dpkg -s synapse` gives `dpkg-query: package 'synapse' is not installed and no information is available`. I never installed it before, and [it doesn't seem to be available for 14.04](http://askubuntu.com/a/449287/18031) yet. – David Harkness Jul 15 '14 at 21:40

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According to this bug thread, one of the recent versions of ibus was either added in 14.04 or added a new key binding for switching input methods. Luckily, removing the binding is trivial.

  1. Run ibus-setup from the command line
  2. Click ... to the far right of Next input method
  3. Click Delete
  4. Click OK
  5. Click Close

Note to future self: Never dismiss the most obvious search query—"ubuntu 14.04 ctrl-space"—without trying it first!

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