Bug#372082: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#372082: xfwm4: many (most?) keybindings broken

Bert Riding reriding at xmission.com
Thu Jun 8 14:53:42 UTC 2006


On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:44:31 +0100
Simon Huggins <huggie at earth.li> wrote:

> tags 372082 +unreproducible moreinfo
> thanks
> 
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 01:35:40AM -0600, Bert wrote:
> > Ctl+Alt+arrow_keys doesn't cycle through workspaces
> > KP_Del (not Alt_Del) deletes workspace
> > KP_Ins (not alt_Ins) adds workspace
> > (and so on)
> > and to me, the most serious breakage is from
> > Tab (not Alt_Tab) brings up a cycle windows window
> > which won't let me choose any window.  For instance, while
> > working in a terminal window, using Tab for tab completion
> > completely destroys usability of system, requireing a
> > restart of X, since, although the cycle windows window 
> > comes up, I am unable to get anything else to happen.  Repeated
> > tabs cycles through the choices, but none can be chosen.  Tab is
> > the only key that does anything, and this is only to move the
> > choice of windows through the chooser dialog box.  X can be
> > restarted with Ctl+Alt+Backspace.  
> 
> > In my use of the X window system I find Tab to be a key that I use
> > often in many applications.  It is very annoying (to the point of
> > making many apps unusable) to have the system rendered useless by
> > the use of this key, and to necessitate a restart of X because of
> > the use of this habitually used key.
> 
> Hmm, we don't see this.
> 
> Do you have some odd custom theme?  What happens if you move any
> keythemerc file from .themes ? (and send us a copy if you find one which
> breaks it).

I've been using xfce (and xfce4) for many years.  Perhaps something in
an old configuration is causing this?  I'll try removing all config and
see what happens.
> 
> What happens if you run xfce-settings-show and look at the window
> manager key settings?  Can you tell us what's there and try choosing the
> default keytheme?

Strangely xfce-settings-show is not found.  I can run the settings
dialog from the root menu.  The Default keybindings is the only one
that is shown.  If I try to create a new one, the directory appears
in .themes but the keybinding won't change.  It always reverts to
what's in Default.
> 
> Are you running any other apps which might be grabbing keys?  Do you
> have any errors in .xsession-errors?

The strangest thing in .xsession-errors is:
Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path:
"libxfce.so",


especially considering:

bertbob at dusty:~$ locate libxfce.so
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/libxfce.so

> 
> Let us know.
> 
> Simon.

Thanks for your attention to this matter.

Bert.

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