[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#522954: Bug#522954: Bug#522954: xfce4: Many user configurations are lost with upgrade to 4.6

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

(please let the bug on CC)

On jeu, 2009-04-09 at 01:09 +0200, Luca Niccoli wrote:
> > One thing, too, is that if there are conflicts (old shortcuts
> > conflicting with new default ones), I'm not sure the script will
> behaves
> > well. xfconf-query doesn't handle conflicts, only the GUI knows
> about
> > them.
> >
> 
> I think one problem is that <Alt>+key and <Meta>+key aren't recognized
> as conflicting...

The thing is, only the GUI can really know what's a conflict.
xfconf-query is unable to check them and it's normal. Especially things
like Alt/Meta are related to how X configures the modifier, and, I
think, they can't exist at the same time on the same key. So they won't
really conflict, but the best way to be sure is to keep a consistent
config wrt. keyboard model/layouts and assign every shortcut from the
GUI interface.

Then there shouldn't be any need to re-set them (besides the GTK+
problem with shortcuts, which are not propagated when one changes the
mapping, for example a Ctrl+A shortcut on an azerty keyboard will stay
on the physical A even when you change the mapping to be a qwerty and
the logical a becomes a logical q).

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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