keyboard window shortcut problems

[David Mohr]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Zach Carter <z.carter at f5.com> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I've recently updated to xfce 4.6, and am having trouble bringing over my
> keyboard shortcuts from earlier versions.
>
> I went to settings -> Window Manager -> Keyboard, and saw my shortcuts listed
> there, but only some of them worked.
>
> In particular:
>
> right_workspace_key=Control+Right <--this one did NOT work
> left_workspace_key=Control+Left <--this one did work
> up_workspace_key=Control+Up <-- this one did work
> down_workspace_key=Control+Down <-- this one did NOT work
>
> The only options available were "Clear", and "Reset to Defaults".  No way to
> edit the keys as far as I can tell.  I figured maybe it was some trouble due to
> having old settings lying around, so I clicked "Reset to Defaults".  That
> worked, but now I'm on the defaults, and can't see a way to change them.

You change keys by double-clicking the action.

~David

> I saw in the document that you need to create a custom key theme, but there is
> no way to do that in the gui.
>
> I went into xfce4-settings-editor, and was unable to modify the keys.  I could
> click "Edit" in the toolbar while looking at one of the settings, but the
> "Name" field does not allow modifications.  The "New" button in the toolbar is
> greyed out.
>
> So, I'm kind of stumped.  No matter what I do with my old keythemerc file, the
> best I can get is 2 out of 4 shortcuts working.
>
> If I try to use the gui to change things, the best I can get is default
> settings.
>
> Am I missing something obvious?  I searched around the wiki, bugzilla, ml
> archives.
>
> Any assistance would be appreciated.
>
> thanks,
>
> -Zach
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