Control key appears as Primary when setting shortcuts

Bengt Frost bengtfrost at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 12:51:43 CEST 2011


Same issue on Debian testing. I had to manually change
xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml file to:
name="...<Control><Alt>t..."

--Bengt Frost

2011/10/19 José Romildo Malaquias <j.romildo at gmail.com>:
> Hello.
>
> This morning my gentoo linux ~amd64 system started to behave strangely
> regarding keyboard shortcuts in Xfce.
>
> I have some keyboard shortcuts that uses the control key. For instance
> <Control><Alt>t> was assigned the "gnome-terminal" command. But when I typed
> <Control><Alt>t nothing was happening.
>
> Then I used the Keyboard Settings dialog to verify the application
> shortcuts. If I try to set a shortcut involving  <Control> , <Primary>
> is used instead. See atached image.
>
> Other applications (like gvim, emacs, firefox, gedit) and window
> managers (like E16) accepts the <Control> key as expected. The problem
> seems to be only with Xfce.
>
> Any clues on what is going on?
>
> Romildo
>
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