Re: Xfce steals keyboard shortcuts?
On 01/09/2012 06:34 PM, Freeman wrote:
> 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.
>
Ouch!
I don't use mutt, or anything else (apparently) that gets interfered
with, but I can see how that would be a bummer.
Is it possible that Mutt's integration (or lack thereof) into the DE
could be a part of the problem in this case?
If this makes no sense -- it is late (where I live), and I am taking
"medication".
;-)
Best regards,
Gilbert
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