Re: keyboard shortcuts and X / WM / DE
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:18:15 -0800
Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:02:30PM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > 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.]
>
> This sounds very much like a session problem. Perhaps your session got
> saved with those particular processes *not* running and subsequently
> they aren't available until you start them. Its been a while since I
> used xfce, so I don't remember the process, but try getting into a
> state that you want to keep and then save the session.
Thanks. I saved a working-shortcut-keys session, but the shortcuts
still don't work on restart (until I open the Keyboard Settings window,
as above).
> A
Celejar
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