User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070528 Firefox/2.0.0.3 Build Identifier: Keyboard shortcut 'Alt-5' can not be assigned to any 'Window Manager'/'Window shortcuts' action. In particular I would like to assign Alt-5 to switch to Workspace 5. I am very well aware that this might clash with other applications. Lets just assume we use none of these applications. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Close all other windows to make sure 'Alt-5' does not clash with any other application (eg. Firefox) 2. Start Xfce Settings Manager 3. Click on 'Window Manager' icon 4. Click 'Add' and enter a new name for the custom shortcuts 5. Double click 'Workspace 5' 6. Hit 'Alt-5' (not Alt-F5) -> (Note: it does not say it clashes with another action) 7. Click 'close' 8. Make sure you have at least 5 workspaces 9. Hit 'Alt-5' Actual Results: Nothing happens Expected Results: Switch to Workspace 5 Using plain xfce4 (eg. no beryl)
I'm not able to reproduce the problem here, it works fine. Can you run "xlsclients" to see what is actually running? Maybe some other app has an active grab of that combination.
--- xlsclients output begins here --- myhost.local xterm -bg darkblue -fg white -sl 5000 myhost.local xfce4-session myhost.local xfce-mcs-manager myhost.local xfwm4 myhost.local xfce4-panel myhost.local Thunar myhost.local xfdesktop myhost.local xfce4-mixer-plugin myhost.local orageclock --- xlsclients output ends here --- Additional info, those shortcuts work well: Alt-0 -> Workspace 10 Alt-1 -> Workspace 1 Alt-2 -> Workspace 2 Alt-3 -> Workspace 3 Alt-4 -> Workspace 4 Alt-6 -> Workspace 6 Alt-7 -> Workspace 7 Alt-8 -> Workspace 8 Alt-9 -> Workspace 9 To make sure I added a new user with a clean homedir. Same effect. I have no idea what actually blocks that combination.(In reply to comment #1) > I'm not able to reproduce the problem here, it works fine. Can you run > "xlsclients" to see what is actually running? Maybe some other app has an > active grab of that combination. > (In reply to comment #1) > I'm not able to reproduce the problem here, it works fine. Can you run > "xlsclients" to see what is actually running? Maybe some other app has an > active grab of that combination. >
Humm, what about regular shortcuts, Settings => Keyboard => Shortcuts Also can you check in your $HOME/.xsession-errors so see if there is any message about being unable to grab that key combination?
Could it be your keyboard mapping in Xorg? Can you try using regular "us" XkbLayout to see if that works?
This is a "public" terminal, the admins configured a customized XkbLayout. Thank you for your analysis.