Indeed it did help locate the problem, which seemed to be in the metacity window-keybindings configuration in gconf-editor. As it turned out, all the settings for moving a window around the desktop/viewport, such as move_to_corner_ne, were set to be integers, but they needed to be strings. Once I changed them all to strings, the CompizConfig settings manager was able to set the keybindings.
I'm not sure what application creates the original settings for the metacity keybindings that you can see with gconf-editor, but that's where the bug is. Hope this helps someone, Per -- Compiz Put plugin does not allow setting keyboard actions in Gutsy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151556 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs