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#1 2011-10-21 17:03:08
- dtomasiewicz
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[SOLVED] xfce4 keyboard shortcuts not working after a full update
I ran pacman -Syu this morning and my xfce4 keyboard shortcuts are no longer working. I literally launch everything with keyboard shortcuts, so this is kind of a pain. Here's the relevant section of my pacman.log.
The only other system changes I made afterwards were:
1) removing LILO (I am not actually bootloading with it anymore) and gnome-online-accounts
2) changing the following daemons to start in background: crond, networkmanager, sshd, mysqld, lighttpd2
Anyone else experiencing this?
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#2 2011-10-21 17:05:54
- Shark
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Re: [SOLVED] xfce4 keyboard shortcuts not working after a full update
Yes, i have the same problem. For me the only shortcuts that works are XF86 (media keys) shortcuts for which i have assigned values in XFCE but regular button shortcuts don't work.
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#3 2011-10-21 17:09:10
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Re: [SOLVED] xfce4 keyboard shortcuts not working after a full update
My problem is SOLVED by reassigning shortcut keys.
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#4 2011-10-21 17:09:29
- dtomasiewicz
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Re: [SOLVED] xfce4 keyboard shortcuts not working after a full update
Yes, i have the same problem. For me the only shortcuts that works are XF86 (media keys) shortcuts for which i have assigned values in XFCE but regular button shortcuts don't work.
Looks like my media key shortcuts are working as well.
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#5 2011-10-21 17:11:57
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Re: [SOLVED] xfce4 keyboard shortcuts not working after a full update
My problem is SOLVED by reassigning shortcut keys.
After rebooting, I can reassign my shortcuts and it works as well-- however "Ctrl" now seems to be registering as "Primary" (which I assume is the source of the original problem...).
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#6 2011-10-21 17:32:39
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Re: [SOLVED] xfce4 keyboard shortcuts not working after a full update
Shark wrote:My problem is SOLVED by reassigning shortcut keys.
After rebooting, I can reassign my shortcuts and it works as well-- however "Ctrl" now seems to be registering as "Primary" (which I assume is the source of the original problem...).
Yes, i can see the difference. Haven't it noticed 
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#7 2011-10-26 07:22:42
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Re: [SOLVED] xfce4 keyboard shortcuts not working after a full update
i found an easier way
log off xfce4 session
log on via tty (terminal)
edit .config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml
replace all "Control>" entries with "Primary>" entries
save
log on xfce4 session back
the trick is done
all shortkeys will start working back 
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#8 2011-10-26 09:15:25
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Re: [SOLVED] xfce4 keyboard shortcuts not working after a full update
Well, this would have been nice to read somewhere, it drove me crazy for quite a few days. Replacing Control by Primary works indeed, I wonder why no-one included a fallback or migration solution.
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