updated libxfce4util

Olivier Duchateau duchateau.olivier at gmail.com
Thu May 9 09:06:11 UTC 2013


On Wed, 8 May 2013 17:41:17 -0600 (MDT)
Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 8 May 2013, Olivier Duchateau wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 2013/5/8 Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com>
> >       The new version of libxfce4util causes the Alt key to be ignored in Keyboard/Application Shortcuts.  That is, if an existing shortcut used the Alt key, it will not work.
> >        New shortcuts using the Alt key are recorded without it.
> >
> >       Seems like this has happened before, but I can't recall the solution.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Shortcuts have been enhanced in xfce4-settings (not in libxfce4util), but I don't know why your Alt key is ignored.
> > 
> > On my system when I pressed Alt + F2 xfce4-appfinder appears (default shortcuts).
> 
> Alt+F2 works for me.  And it looks like Alt works, it's the Shift key 
> that does not.

Ah ok, sorry I misunderstood.

Could you test this patch [1]? Keep in mind it's just a "workaround", because it touches x11/libxfce4menu, no change was made, with recent update.

I know shortcuts keys in xfce4-settings have been deeply changed.

[1] http://people.freebsd.org/~olivierd/patches/libxfce4menu.diff

> 
> > I just created new shortcuts with Alt and every thing works fine.
> 
> In Settings/Keyboard/Application Shortcuts, click Add, enter firefox for 
> the command, and press Alt Shift F.  The shortcut recorded is just 
> <Alt>f.
> 
> > FAQ [1] can help you ?
> > 
> > [1] http://docs.xfce.org/faq
> 
> I don't think that applies to the application shortcuts.
> 
> Thanks!


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olivier


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