[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#655722: Bug#655722: xfce4: Unable to use keyboard shortcuts with xfce4

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On sam., 2012-01-14 at 08:51 -0500, Jeffry Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> wrote:
> > On ven., 2012-01-13 at 23:24 -0500, Jeffry Smith wrote:
> >> Not happening.  When I put in the command and press "OK" it just goes
> >> back to the original screen.  It never asks for a shortcut.  And none
> >> of the shortcuts I have defined work.  The default ones that were in
> >> there do work.
> >
> > Can you try to run xfce4-keyboard-settings from commandline and see if
> > anything is output in the terminal? Might be worth looking
> > at .xsession-errors too.
> > --
> > Yves-Alexis
> 
> Same result, no output to the terminal.  Nothing shows up in
> .xsession-errors (ran the kfce4-keyboard-settings while doing "tail -f
> .xsession-keyboard-settings in another terminal).  However, a grep of
> .xsession-errors shows a number of lines consisting of:
> ** (xfce4-menu-plugin:4961): CRITICAL **: Unable to get keyboard/mouse grab.
> ** (xfce4-menu-plugin:4961): CRITICAL **: Unable to get keyboard/mouse grab.
> ** (xfce4-menu-plugin:4961): CRITICAL **: Unable to get keyboard/mouse grab.
> ** (xfwm4:5058): WARNING **: Unhandled keyboard shortcut
> ** (xfwm4:4971): WARNING **: Unhandled keyboard shortcut
> ** (xfwm4:4971): WARNING **: Unhandled keyboard shortcut
> ** (xfwm4:5391): WARNING **: Unhandled keyboard shortcut
> ** (xfdesktop:5258): CRITICAL **: Unable to get keyboard/mouse grab.
> Unable to pop up menu
> ** (xfdesktop:5258): CRITICAL **: Unable to get keyboard/mouse grab.
> Unable to pop up menu
> ** (xfwm4:4923): WARNING **: Unhandled keyboard shortcut
> ** (xfce4-menu-plugin:4733): CRITICAL **: Unable to get keyboard/mouse grab.
> ** (xfwm4:11837): WARNING **: Unhandled keyboard shortcut
> ** (xfce4-menu-plugin:11848): CRITICAL **: Unable to get keyboard/mouse grab.
> ** (xfce4-menu-plugin:11848): CRITICAL **: Unable to get keyboard/mouse grab.
> ** (xfce4-menu-plugin:6210): CRITICAL **: Unable to get keyboard/mouse grab.
> ** (xfce4-menu-plugin:6210): CRITICAL **: Unable to get keyboard/mouse grab.

Those look indeed weird. Is your session somehow special, is there
something which might prevent those to get the keyboard? (special input
method or stuff like that, maybe?)

Could you give us the output of ps aux?

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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