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bebeababa

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Registered: 2008-10-21

Posts: 9

[SOLVED] gnome-settings-daemon problem after pacman -Syu

Today after updating my hp laptop with pacman -Syu, I noticed that I lost a few of my multimedia key shortcuts. When I tried to fix this with System->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts, I get this error:

Unable to start the settings manager 'gnome-settings-daemon'.
Without the GNOME settings manager running, some preferences may not take effect. This could indicate a problem with Bonobo, or a non-GNOME (e.g. KDE) settings manager may already be active and conflicting with the GNOME settings manager.

The keyboard shortcut menu comes up as normal, and seems to work like it should for everything but the multimedia keys. I get the same error when clicking on the Appearance & Keyboard menus.

I remember pacman asking me if I wanted to replace gail with gtk2. Could that have anything to do with it?

Any ideas?

Thanks!!!!

Last edited by bebeababa (2008-10-23 17:08:13)

JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: [SOLVED] gnome-settings-daemon problem after pacman -Syu

Log out from gnome and login again, this should fix your issues.

bebeababa

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Registered: 2008-10-21

Posts: 9

Re: [SOLVED] gnome-settings-daemon problem after pacman -Syu

Log out from gnome and login again, this should fix your issues.

Tried it, no change.

I forgot to mention that running "gnome-settings-daemon" in a termal produces:

** ERROR **: You can only run one xsettings manager at a time; exiting

aborting...
Aborted

... and that the pstree shows a "gnome-settings-" entry.

Any other ideas?

bebeababa

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Registered: 2008-10-21

Posts: 9

Re: [SOLVED] gnome-settings-daemon problem after pacman -Syu

Nevermind. Problem solved with all the gnome 2.4 stuff, thanks!