Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
xbindkeys runs and I can launch everything from it - except KDE applications - and even some of those seem to work. In particular, two settings in xbindkeys fail:
"dolphin"
mod4 + f
"/usr/bin/qdbus org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver Lock" mod4 + l
I need to kill xbindkeys and start it again for those bindings to work. It gets weirder, because sometimes I have to restart it twice. As I said, I cannot make sense of the problem - running any of those commands from Alt+F2 or from konsole always works (except dolphin segfaulting, of course).
Could it result from a bad interaction with how Kwin or whatever-it-is maps the keys ? I remember having the same problem with XFCE, when calling xbindkeys from a .xsession file, with the additional constraint that I had two keyboards with different mappings: there was only one keyboard working. Since then I use built-in facilities of desktop environments to define shortcuts. So I'd say it's a xbindkeys issue. Do you experience problems when only using standard modifiers in Xbindkeys (like ctrl/shift?). -- Rémy