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lukezenoob

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Registered: 2022-07-12

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] Keyboard shortcuts have suddenly stopped working

Hello Xfce users, I love my keyboard shortcuts, we all do. Today, they have stopped working. I don't even get notified of a "command not found"

The only shortcuts i have added is Super+T for the terminal, left Super for the Whisker Menu and PrintScreen for the screenshooter. I am currently under Gentoo Linux, kernel 5.15.52. Haven't removed any other default shortcuts either.

My suspicion is that depclean may have removed something important. Could there be an important package that handles these keyboard shortcuts?

I dug through some logs and config files. xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml seemed relevant.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/ … nknown.png

And a full copy of the file here: https://dpaste.com/DM2LE6GVA I just moved a copy to documents. Haven't changed the original file.

Last edited by lukezenoob (2022-07-13 16:28:47)

KBar

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Registered: 2021-11-05

Posts: 689

Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard shortcuts have suddenly stopped working

Hello. Thanks for joining us.

Two things:

1. Reset your shortcuts to defaults.

2. Clear out the sessions cache:

   rm -rf ~/.cache/sessions/*

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lukezenoob

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Registered: 2022-07-12

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard shortcuts have suddenly stopped working

Will do, thanks