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Keyboard shorcuts stop working randomly
Status:
RESOLVED: MOVED
Product:
Libxfce4ui
Component:
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Description Fernando Basso 2018-11-08 23:16:38 CET
Created attachment 8097 
$HOME/.xsession-errors

Sometimes keyboard shorcuts stop working. Sometimes I doesn't happen for two or three days, sometimes it happens one our two hours after I log into Xfce, sometimes it happens right after I log into Xfce.

If I log out and into Xfce again, then it works.

Tried doing `xfdesktop --reload` and `XFSETTINGSD_DEBUG=1 xfsettingsd --replace --no-daemon` and neither helped.

It is worth nothing that not every shorctut stopps working.

List of some shorctuts that _stop_ working:

* Alt-F2 for the Xfce run dialog
* Super-R (to run gmrun)
* Super-W (to run xfdesktop --windowlist)
* Super-F (to run firefox)
* Super-H (to run Thunar on my $HOME)
* PrtSc (to run xfce4-screenshooter)

Things that seem to work with maganing the desktop itself seem to still work after the ones listed above stop working:

* Super+1/2/3/4 (to navigate to desktops 1, 2, 3 and 4
* Super-D (to minimize all windows)
* Super-M (to minimize the current window)
* Alt-F4 (to close the current window)
* Alt-F4 (to bring up the shutdown/restart/logout dialog)
Comment 1 Fernando Basso 2018-11-08 23:23:10 CET
Created attachment 8098 
xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml
Comment 2 Skunnyk editbugs 2018-11-10 19:01:13 CET
From what you say, all shortcuts from xfce4-settings / xfsettingsd does not work anymore from time to time. Those from xfwm4 still works.

When this happen, can you try to kill xfsettingsd, check that there is no xfsettingsd process anymore, then re run xfsettingsd?

Also, what are your components versions ? (libxfce4ui / xfce4-settings)
Comment 3 Fernando Basso 2018-11-10 23:10:33 CET
$ pacman -Si libxfce4ui | grep -i version
Version         : 4.12.1-2

$ pacman -Si xfce4-settings | grep -i version
Version         : 4.12.4-1

When I kill xfsettingsd, the screen flashes and then the process is there again (with another PID), no matter how many times I kill -9 it.

I tried re-running xsettingsd anyway. No luck.
Comment 4 Git Bot editbugs 2020-05-25 23:01:48 CEST
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Bug #14859

Reported by:
Fernando Basso
Reported on: 2018-11-08
Last modified on: 2020-05-25

People

Assignee:
Nick Schermer
CC List:
3 users

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Attachments

$HOME/.xsession-errors (13.35 KB, application/octet-stream)
2018-11-08 23:16 CET , Fernando Basso
no flags
xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml (10.99 KB, application/xml)
2018-11-08 23:23 CET , Fernando Basso
no flags

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