Re: Xfce steals keyboard shortcuts?
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 07:56:55AM -0500, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
> 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:
>
> -----------------------------8<-----------------------------
>
> 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
>
> -----------------------------8<-----------------------------
>
> 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>.
>
>
Right, the nifty Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts utility.
However, I've noticed that Primary shortcut in Xfce4 are interfering with
some <Ctrl> shortcuts in mutt, even when the mutt window is not active.
This didn't with the same <Ctrl> shortcuts in Gnome because I wouldn't have
been able to use mutt effectively.
So Xfce4 is not respecting the window for Primary shortcuts or something is
different.
--
Regards,
Freeman
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