Hi,
when i logged in today in my fedora 17 x86_64 installation (uname -r: 3.7.6-102.fc17.x86_64), i noticed two abnormal things:
1. My keyboard shortcuts weren't working anymore. For example, my <CTRL><ALT><L> that supposedly would lock the screen, didn't do anything at all, and my <CTRL><ALT><DEL> that would give me, supposedly, the log out screen, didn't do anything either.
2. The windows wouldn't be placed in the right place when started. In other words, they wouldn't comply with my option "By default, place windows: at the center of the screen" in settings>settings manager>window manager tweaks>placement. In the same window, i also have the cursor pushed all the way to Large in the "minimum size of windows to trigger smart placement" option.
Now, since i am almost sure that yesterday none of this was happening, i did the following:
$rpm -qa --last | more ModemManager-0.6.0.0-3.fc17 Mon 18 Feb 2013 11:16:52 dnsmasq-2.65-4.fc17 Mon 18 Feb 2013 11:16:51 phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.6.3-1.fc17 Mon 18 Feb 2013 11:16:50 xkeyboard-config-2.5.1-4.fc17 Mon 18 Feb 2013 11:16:49 xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.6.3-1.fc17 Mon 18 Feb 2013 11:16:47 mtdev-1.1.3-1.fc17 Mon 18 Feb 2013 11:16:45
Regarding the shortcuts (point 1), can i say that the xkeyboard-config is the culprit? Or is my assumption completely wrong? (With xev i was able to confirm that the keys are being correctly interpreted)
Regarding point 2, after playing around, i saw that if i go to settings>settings manager>window manager tweaks>placement and push the cursor all the way to "Small" and then again all the way to "Large", the windows wouldn't start where i want them again, which is at the center of the screen.
Is someone else seeing the same thing? Should i fill a bug? If so, against what?
Thanks for any input.
Am Montag, den 18.02.2013, 13:05 +0000 schrieb Tiago Lam:
Hi,
when i logged in today in my fedora 17 x86_64 installation (uname -r: 3.7.6-102.fc17.x86_64), i noticed two abnormal things:
- My keyboard shortcuts weren't working anymore. For example, my
<CTRL><ALT><L> that supposedly would lock the screen, didn't do anything at all, and my <CTRL><ALT><DEL> that would give me, supposedly, the log out screen, didn't do anything either.
This was caused by a gtk2 update, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=759478
As a result we had to apply the patch from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=768704 that changed <Control> to <Primary>. You can manually edit your ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml file or use xfce4-keyboard-settings to re-define the shortcuts.
- The windows wouldn't be placed in the right place when started. In
other words, they wouldn't comply with my option "By default, place windows: at the center of the screen" in settings>settings manager>window manager tweaks>placement. In the same window, i also have the cursor pushed all the way to Large in the "minimum size of windows to trigger smart placement" option.
I don't fully understand your problem, but fro what I get I haven't heard of it before. Anybody else?
Best regards, Christoph
On 02/18/2013 01:17 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
This was caused by a gtk2 update, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=759478
As a result we had to apply the patch from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=768704 that changed <Control> to <Primary>. You can manually edit your ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml file or use xfce4-keyboard-settings to re-define the shortcuts.
Alright, thank you very much for the info, i had no knowledge about that change.
But anyway, i don't think that that change messed up my keyboard shortcuts. I have a script that gets executed when i log in, and i just forgot about it. Once i corrected the script, they started working, and so i'm pretty sure it was it.
I don't fully understand your problem, but fro what I get I haven't heard of it before. Anybody else?
I will try to explain it better this time:
So, when we go to settings>settings manager>window manager tweaks>placement you have two configuration options. The first one is a slider, and the second one are radio buttons, right? At the slider, my configuration is set all the way to Large, and at the radio buttons i have chosen the option "At the center of the screen".
What i want with the above configuration is that whenever a new window is started, my window manager doesn't choose where it should be placed. With the above configuration, the window is placed at the center of the screen, and then i move it if necessary (it's what i find to work best for me).
But that option is not working since today's update, and i really have no idea why. What happens now is that the windows aren't placed at the center, but in wherever place the window manager finds it better.
Now, what i know is, like i said in the previous email, if i go to settings>settings manager>window manager tweaks>placement and push the slider all the way to "Small", and then again all the way to "Large", the windows that are started get placed in the center again...
Weird?
I hope that i was clearer this time :)
Best regards, Christoph
Regards