keyboard shortcuts do not work

[David Rosenstrauch]

On 02/13/2013 09:16 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Lili-Anne Girard
> <liliannegirard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2013/2/13 Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com>:
>>> Greetings,
>>> I'm running xfce-4.8.3 (stock from Fedora17).  I've found that none of
>>> the keyboard shortcuts work.   They simply do nothing at all.  I even
>>> tried hitting the "Reset to Defaults" button in the Application
>>> Shortcuts tab of the 'Keyboard' settings panel, but still nothing.
>>>
>>> How do I debug this further?
>>>
>>> thanks!
>> Make sure that xfce4-settings-helper is running.
>
> Bingo, that was the problem.  Not sure why it wasn't, but I fired it
> up, and now everything works.
>
> thanks!

Sorry for pointing you the wrong way.  Xfsettingsd I think would have 
been the correct answer for XFCE 4.10, but I overlooked that you're 
running 4.8.

DR