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razor7
Asked: 2018-05-04 10:26:50 +0800 CST

Cannot open calculator app from keyboard calculator button

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If I press the calculator button in my keyboard, the gnome calculator app doesn't appear. I have double checked that the shortcut is ok in the settings app keyboard bindings config pane.

shortcut-keys 18.04 gnome-calculator

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I found that installing the calculator app via apt instead of snap (the default in 18.04) fixed this issue:

    sudo snap remove gnome-calculator
sudo apt install gnome-calculator

    This has the added benefit of making the calculator launch instantaneously again.

    The cause of the problem is a bug in the gnome-settings-daemon package, which has been fixed in Ubuntu 18.10 and above. The workaround above remains necessary in 18.04, however.

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  2. You can remove the default shortcut for "Launch Calculator"...

    Remove default Calculator shortcut

    and instead add a custom shortcut to run gnome-calculator, and assign the Calculator key to it:

    Custom Calculator shortcut

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