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keyboard shortcuts stop working "randomly" (?)
Status:
RESOLVED: WONTFIX
Product:
Xfce4-settings
Component:
Keyboard Settings

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Description Niklas 2009-11-14 09:33:05 CET
The keyboard shortcuts (the ones defined in xfce4-keyboard-settings and xfwm4-settings) sometimes stop working, about once or twice a day. I have no idea what might be causing it (will add more info when I find a correlation).

Every time I try using one of the shortcuts the tty outputs the following:
** (xfwm4:3723): WARNING **: Unhandled keyboard shortcut

Restarting xfce-settings-helper doesn't help. Restarting the whole desktop environment does.
Comment 1 Niklas 2009-11-15 09:58:36 CET
Man this is really getting on my nerves. I'd love to provide more information. What you need?

I've just checked that the output of "xmodmap" doesn't change (I think I've read about some other bug where it did).
Comment 2 Niklas 2009-11-15 21:37:25 CET
bug in xorg
Comment 3 Jannis Pohlmann editbugs 2009-11-15 21:41:45 CET
(In reply to comment #2)
> bug in xorg

Hey. Mind to share more details about the XOrg bug? We've had several reports like this where keyboard shortcuts stopped working and it would be cool if we could check if those were related to yours.
Comment 4 Niklas 2009-11-18 22:29:31 CET
My mode_switch key sometimes gets locked if I use it together with shift (to produce capital letters like Æ Ø Å). I think this is the result of a recent xorg update. In this locked state the shortcuts stop working (even though they don't include any keys altered by the mode_switch).

I can unlock the mode_switch again by holding the mode_switch key, then holding shift, then releasing the mode_switch key and after that shift (shortcuts work again).

Have not found a fix yet.

Bug #5979

Reported by:
Niklas
Reported on: 2009-11-14
Last modified on: 2009-11-18

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Assignee:
Jannis Pohlmann
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