Re: keyboard shortcuts and X / WM / DE

Celejar on 29/01/08 01:02, wrote:
> I've been struggling for quite some time, and I'm quite baffled. I'm
> trying to get my keyboard shortcuts to work properly under Xfce, and I
> can't figure out what is going on.
>
> I created a new theme and added some keyboard shortcuts to it
> (Settings / Keyboard Settings / Shortcuts - Themes), and they work
> fine, but they don't completely survive a reset; every time xfce is
> restarted, they don't work, until I open the Keyboard settings window
> again. Opening the window, even without actually doing anything inside
> it, reactivates them, and then they continue to work fine for the rest
> of the session.
>
> [By "not working", I mean that the designated app isn't started, and
> the key combo falls to the window with focus.]
>
> I tried a new, test user, and his shortcuts work correctly between
> sessions. I assume something has become corrupted somewhere in my
> $HOME, but I have no idea what.
>
> I don't know if this is in any way related, but I also am experiencing
> similar strangeness with the WM independent xbindkeys (the above
> description is without running xbindkeys). It used to work fine, but
> some time ago many of the shortcuts I defined (in $HOME/xbindkeysrc)
> stopped working. Sometimes only the first in the file
> would work, but after I used the first one the others would also
> (often) begin to work.
>
> Any suggestions? What could be wrong / misconfigured?

I'm sorry but I don't know what the problem is, apart from the fact that it really smells like a bug. But I would say Xfce should be able to fix it. What version are you on, and which distro - lenny or etch or ? I found that the version that comes with etch was surprisingly old, but I wasn't hassled enough to upgrade to lenny to try to sort it out.

Adam

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