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basilis0606

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Registered: 2025-05-05

Posts: 1

Gnome reseting keyboard shortucts

Hello there,

Using arch with gnome de. Have set 3 keyboard shortcuts.
One for prtsc to open flameshot.sh which is pointing to /usr/bin/flameshot
And two more which keep getting removed and I am not sure why or when it is happening, if it helps not on rebooting in particular but sometimes hours after setting them.
The one is ctrl alt t for opening kgx terminal and the other ctrl alt p for poweroff
Neither of the 2 is conflicting with preset shortcuts (no warnings are shown when set) yet they keep getting removed.

Thanks a lot in advance!!

ntb314

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Registered: 2025-02-13

Posts: 27

Re: Gnome reseting keyboard shortucts

Hey @basilis0606,

If your problem still happens to be an issue here a couple things you might want to try:

- Check if something's overwriting them: GNOME stores custom keybinds in dconf, so you can run this to watch for changes:

dconf watch /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys/custom-keybindings/

That might help spot when they’re getting nuked.

- Extensions or sync tools: Any GNOME extensions, remote desktop stuff, or syncing tools (like GSConnect) running? Some of those can interfere with settings.

- Crashing settings daemon: Check your journal logs to see if gnome-settings-daemon is restarting or crashing:

journalctl -b | grep gnome-settings-daemon

- Permissions or config issues: Worth double-checking that ~/.config/dconf is writable and not corrupted or weird.

If it keeps happening, you could also work around it by setting up a little script to re-add the shortcuts and have that run on login --> but I'd only do this as a last instance

Hope this helped!

Cheers