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Re: keyboard shortcuts and X / WM / DE



On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 06:34:03PM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> 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).

Well, it still sounds like a session saving problem, but obviously a
deeper problem than just saving the session through the UI. I would
ask on xfce's mailing list. IIRC, they're pretty helpful over there.

A

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