[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#445172: Bug#445172: Bug#445172: xfce4: XFCE doesn't register keyboard shortcuts on startup; acts as if Alt were constantly pressed

[Simon Huggins]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 10:02:17PM +0000, Omari Stephens wrote:
> Simon Huggins wrote:
> ::snip? SNIP!::
> >Hrm, how bizarre.  Your locale is en_US is there anything odd about your
> >keyboard setup in your X config?  Can you give us the lines you have?
> I've attached my X config.  I'm currently running with the binary driver, 
> though the problem persists regardless of whether I use "nv" or "nvidia."

> >Do you have any Xmodmap files or any other local keyboard config that
> >might be getting in the way?
> Not that I'm aware of.  This was a clean install when I ran into the 
> problem Note that I installed the Debian base and then installed everything 
> else by hand with apt-get/aptitude.  This has worked flawlessly on a number 
> of machines I've set up in the past, which is why I'm so confused.

Does this mean you don't have any recommends installed?

> >Does this still happen if you just use startx?
> It does happen if I still use startx.  I noticed that if I merely kill
> xfce-mcs-manager and xfwm4 and start them over again (without touching
> any settings stuff), it just starts working properly.

> And as a new development, when I start X, xfwm4 either isn't started or 
> dies immediately.  I have no idea whether or not this is related to the 
> original problem or something different.  Nonetheless, as I noted above, 
> once I start it manually (from a terminal), it works as expected.

Do you get any interesting logs in .xsession-errors ?

(it might help if you check outside of X, move the file away and then
restart it to see what is generated in this session)

You could try moving your .config and .cache (or just the xfce related
bits) out of the way temporarily to see if there's something in your
xfce config causing this too.

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