Problem with Super + Grave global shortcut

Question

My goal: open Yakuake or Tilda terminal with Super + Grave (backtick, tilde, `) shortcut in Gnome. What I could achieve is only holding Super + pressing Grave twice.

A little background. By default Super + Grave is a shortcut for /org/gnome/desktop/wm/keybindings/switch-group So I disabled it in DConf editor.

Then when I just press Super + Grave (`) once, I just see ` symbol in Tilda, while Yakuake shows s` somehow (yes, with additional s letter). But pressing Grave twice works (though additional ` symbol gets typed, that is annoying).

What's interesting, when I install Drop Down Terminal Gnome Extension and set Super + Grave shortcut it works perfectly. But Drop Down Terminal is too simple for me.

I use Gnome 3.32 and International English layout + Russian keyboard layout.

Answer 1

This is easy to fix. You need to get the Gnome Tweak Tool and navigate to the keyboard settings. On Cinnamon, you can do the same by opening Settings->keyboard->Layouts->Options. You should see something like this:

Open the "Alt/Win key behavior" and change it from "Default" to "Hyper is mapped to Win":

That should solve the issue.