• Registered: 2011-09-25
  • Posts: 10

Topic: problems with shortcut keys

Hi everybody,

I am experiencing the following issue: the shortcut keys (those ones that are listed in conky panel) are not working, with one exception - Alt + F2, that works well. This surprised me a bit, because I remember that shortcuts were working ok, some time ago (I am not using shortcuts very often - bad for me I know). I have seen similar thread here, were the solution was to comment following line:

(sleep 5s && killall xfce4-settings-helper) &

within the ./config/xfce4/autostart.sh file. But this doesn't work for me. I have checked the .config/openbox/rc.xml file to see configuration of the keybindings for applications running. This seems to be OK. Example for running the browser: key="W-w", but windows key + w deosn't work anything.  Could anyone please help me with this?

Cheers!

  • Registered: 2009-10-01
  • Posts: 500

Re: problems with shortcut keys

I had problems with xfce and shortcuts as well. sometimes they worked, sometimes not.. there have been threads about this. maybe check my post history for a thread concerning this. I remember I had issues with this while seetting up a computer for a friend in summer last year. Now I use openbox.. no prob there.

edit: I guess changing openbox rc.xml won't help, as you use xfce and xfce keybinds are stored in.. the xfce configs?

Last edited by saneks (2012-02-03 13:22:49)

eee701/4gb/512ram
  • Registered: 2011-09-25
  • Posts: 10

Re: problems with shortcut keys

edit: I guess changing openbox rc.xml won't help, as you use xfce and xfce keybinds are stored in.. the xfce configs?

good note, thanks, I checked the xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml and those shortcuts seem to work ok. but there are no shortcuts regarding for example launching terminal.  Is there an easy way to make openbox/rcxml keybindings work for me? I remember that they used to.

Alternatively I can manually create my own shortcuts using Super + .., according to conky list of shortcuts.

  • Registered: 2009-10-01
  • Posts: 500

Re: problems with shortcut keys

smrtihlav wrote:

Is there an easy way to make openbox/rcxml keybindings work for me? I remember that they used to.

Alternatively I can manually create my own shortcuts using Super + .., according to conky list of shortcuts.

to have openbox shortcuts, you have to use openbox. or as you guessed, create your own in xfce.

eee701/4gb/512ram
  • Registered: 2011-09-25
  • Posts: 10

Re: problems with shortcut keys

already did,

strongly appreciated your help! Thanks a lot