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onexused

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Registered: 2009-10-07

Posts: 115

[solved?] xfce4-settings-helper stops helping

I have several keyboard shortcuts set in xfce4.  Printscreen, ctrl+printscreen, ctrl+alt+del, alt+f2.  They work for a time, but soon only ctrl+alt+del (to lock the screen) does anything.  I have to kill and restart xfce4-settings-helper to use the others again.  However, within a few minutes (10? 15?) the shortcuts stop working again.
I have gnome-settings-daemon running, if that affects anything (I'm using a few gnome programs and many gtk ones).
How do I make xfce4-settings-helper -always- pay attention to my keyboard shortcuts?  Or how do I stop whatever other program(s) from blocking it?

Last edited by onexused (2011-06-04 02:58:06)

onexused

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Registered: 2009-10-07

Posts: 115

Re: [solved?] xfce4-settings-helper stops helping

If anyone has even a partial answer to this, I'd appreciate hearing it.  I would like to be able to use keyboard shortcuts to do things like take a screenshot without having to restart xfce4-settings-helper every time.

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

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Re: [solved?] xfce4-settings-helper stops helping

Well does it make a difference if gnome-settings-daemon is not running?

onexused

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Registered: 2009-10-07

Posts: 115

Re: [solved?] xfce4-settings-helper stops helping

Unfortunately, no.  To test it, I just killed gnome-settings-daemon and restarted xfce4-settings-helper.  I still can't use the keyboard shortcuts I set in XFCE (except ctrl+alt+del to lock the screen, which has never stopped working).

onexused

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Registered: 2009-10-07

Posts: 115

Re: [solved?] xfce4-settings-helper stops helping

A recent commit to the XFCE git is said to have fixed this, so I'll mark the topic solved.