You need to run beagle in the tray to use the shortcut to pop it up. Change the launcher to beagle-search --icon.
** Changed in: beagle (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected -- keyboard shortcut has never worked for me under ubuntu https://launchpad.net/bugs/59387 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs