Re: keyboard shortcuts and X / WM / DE

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:28:21 +0000
Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com> wrote:

> 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.

Thanks.  Up to date sid.  What makes me think that it's not a simple bug
is the fact that another (test) user doesn't seem to be having the same
problem, which makes me think that something has become corrupted in my
$HOME, above.  I may take your implicit advice and ask on the Xfce list.

> Adam

Celejar
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