Re: Xfce steals keyboard shortcuts?
On 01/08/2012 07:54 PM, Freeman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 04:13:37PM -0800, evenso wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:01:09PM +0400, Roman Khomasuridze wrote:
>>> Sorry, forgot to mention that in previous post..see settings -> window
>>> manager -> keyboard. there are bunch of <cntrl> related shortcuts there.
>>> remove them and you'll be all set up.
>>>
>>
>> (Starting the bottom post protocol used here.)
>>
>> That was helpful but I still haven't ever found, got working or successfully
>> entered under Xfce4 the <Control>space shortcut that is used by kupfer out
>> of the box in Gnome and Openbox. Although I do have <Super>space working
>> for gmrun. For that matter, I have never succeeded in getting any
>> <Control>xyz shortcut working under Xfce4.
>>
>
> In case I am not the only person who didn't know this, I recently discovered
> that the fxce4 term for the ctrl key is "Primary" .
>
To quote a little note that showed up in the aptitude scroll during
installation of the latest libxfce4gui library to make its way into
Wheezy on my systems:
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libxfce4ui (4.8.0-4) unstable; urgency=low
Starting Gtk+ 2.24.7, the Control key often found on PC keyboards isn't
called 'Control' but 'Primary', breaking configured keyboard shortcuts
already set. If you experience this in Xfce (application not starting and
keyboard shortcut using Control key), just re-bind the various
shortcuts using the same keys combination. The shortcut will be
replaced by
the 'Primary' version and will work correctly.
-- Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:10:00 +0100
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All I needed to do to restore my keyboard shortcuts that used the <Ctrl>
key was to delete those shortcuts, and then re-create them. When you do
this you'll see that the left <Ctrl> key will be called <Primary>.
Regards,
Gilbert
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