How do I disable the Unity keyboard shortcut overlay?

Question

Is it possible to disable keyboard shortcut overlay in Ubuntu 12.04?

One reason to disable this, or to delay the appearance of the shortcut key overlay, is that it interferes with taking screen captures with the easy screen capture function normally launched by <Super>Button 1. The hints in the overlay appear in the screen capture, which is usually not what you want.
I'm not using 12.10 but as far as I know this option has not been removed. You can try reseting your compiz/unity settings with $ compiz.reset, logout and login then execute $ dconf write /org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/unityshell/shortcut-overlay false.

Lucio · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-05 23:44:29Z

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For Ubuntu 12.04 and below:

The keyboard shortcut overlay is controlled by an option in the compiz unity plugin.

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In the experimental tab of ccsm you can untick the option shown.

Remember the use of CCSM is strongly discouraged - you can achieve the same via gconf-editor

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untick the option shown in the path /apps/compiz-1/plugins/unityshell/screen0/options/shortcut_overlay

edited Apr 5 at 23:44

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answered Feb 11 '12 at 17:19

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On my fresh 12.10 install, /apps/compiz-1/plugins/unityshell is not present. – Bart van Heukelom Nov 14 '12 at 19:59

Why is using gconf-editor preferred over using ccsm ? – Kristopher Ives Jan 22 at 22:41

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@KristopherIves - this Q&A will explain your question: askubuntu.com/questions/80589/… – fossfreedom♦ Jan 22 at 23:16

Lucio · Answer 2 · 2013-04-04 14:48:30Z

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You can disable this behavior following this steps:

edited Apr 4 at 14:48

answered Apr 3 at 23:35

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Out of curiosity, how would this be done on the command line? – Kupiakos Apr 11 at 20:17