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twitchard

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Registered: 2008-07-08

Posts: 1

alt-f2 not trigger xfrun4

I use the 'run program' thing a LOT, unfortunately it seems that when I press alt-f2 the thing doesn't launch.
I'm using the 4.4.2 on openSUSE 11.0.
I looked in the GUI settings and couldn't find any place to configure it. . . which file would I have to edit to find the setting for that?

Mr. Swillis

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Registered: 2008-08-06

Posts: 10

Re: alt-f2 not trigger xfrun4

Hello,

Fire up the Desktop menu and go into Keyboard Settings off of the Settings menu. In there, select the "Shortcuts" tab and you should have a "Theme" called Default at a minimum. In the middle pane you should see a list of commands and their shortcuts.

If "xfrun4" isn't in the list, you can hit the Add button to add it back in.

If "xfrun4" *is* in the list and the shortcut still doesn't work, then fire open a terminal and type "xfrun4" at the prompt. If there is a problem with the command itself, you should get some kind of output there.

Swill

xaff

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Registered: 2009-03-03

Posts: 2

Re: alt-f2 not trigger xfrun4

I have the same problem. After reboot everything seems fine, but later all keyboard shortcuts just cease to work, including default ones.

disabled

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Registered: 2009-03-07

Posts: 1

Re: alt-f2 not trigger xfrun4

I faced the same problem: no one of hotkeys defined in keyboard settings is working. Yesterday all was fine, unfortunatly i didn't notice when it happened.

addr

Member

From: manitoba

Registered: 2008-11-21

Posts: 5

Re: alt-f2 not trigger xfrun4

Same problem - no hotkeys working.
<Alt>f2 correctly set and the run box opens  with xfrun4 in the command line.
This must be affecting hundreds of people...surely there is a workaround?

FrancescoA

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Registered: 2009-04-27

Posts: 38

Re: alt-f2 not trigger xfrun4

Same problem - no hotkeys working.
<Alt>f2 correctly set and the run box opens  with xfrun4 in the command line.
This must be affecting hundreds of people...surely there is a workaround?

I have also the same Problem. I assigned Krusader to ctrl-shift-y, it works immediatly, but then later (or after reboot), the shortcut is not responding anymore.

reisio

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Registered: 2009-05-05

Posts: 12

Re: alt-f2 not trigger xfrun4

Make sure xfce4-settings-helper is running.  The larger problem, I believe, is that the session manager has trouble keeping this process running each time.
(edit: this is actually possibly only relevant for 4.6, so my apologies to OP — another executable handles shortcuts for 4.4, but I've forgotten its name)

addr

Member

From: manitoba

Registered: 2008-11-21

Posts: 5

Re: alt-f2 not trigger xfrun4

That fixed it for me!
Thanks reisio!
Xfce4-settings-helper was not running...don't know why.