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[window manager/window shortcut] alt-5 can be assigned but won't do anything
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Description Emanuel Haupt 2007-06-01 18:57:25 CEST
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070528 Firefox/2.0.0.3
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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)
Comment 1 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2007-06-01 21:30:23 CEST
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.
Comment 2 Emanuel Haupt 2007-06-01 21:59:50 CEST
--- 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.
> 

Comment 3 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2007-06-03 11:35:51 CEST
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?
Comment 4 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2007-06-03 11:37:29 CEST
Could it be your keyboard mapping in Xorg? Can you try using regular "us" XkbLayout to see if that works?
Comment 5 Emanuel Haupt 2007-06-04 06:06:38 CEST
This is a "public" terminal, the admins configured a customized XkbLayout. Thank you for your analysis.

Bug #3312

Reported by:
Emanuel Haupt
Reported on: 2007-06-01
Last modified on: 2009-07-14

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Olivier Fourdan
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