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Apollo618

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Registered: 2025-03-16

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Keyboard shortcuts for Window Manager with Windows key not working

Hello,

I am running openSUSE Tumbleweed with Xfce 4.20.

I changed some Application Shortcuts in xfce4-keyboard-settings -> Application Shortcuts using the Windows key. They work great!

But for some reason Action Shortcuts in xfwm4-settings -> Keyboard I want to change "Maximize window" to Windows+Up which does not work. If I use any shortcut without the Windows key it works.

What am I missing here, why is it not working?

Thanks

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openSUSE Tumbleweed
Xfce 4.20

Tamaranch

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From: France

Registered: 2020-12-31

Posts: 358

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Re: Keyboard shortcuts for Window Manager with Windows key not working

This is an inescapable limitation as long as xfce4-keyboard-settings (actually libxfce4ui) and xfwm4 each define global keyboard shortcuts on their own: if one uses Windows+key, the other can't use it. This is a problem that will only be solved on wayland, when we'll have our own compositor, from which all global shortcuts will be defined.