Re: Keyboard shortcuts disappearing

["Mark Hull-Richter" <mhullrich gmail com>]

On 10/25/07, Mark Hull-Richter <mhullrich gmail com> wrote:
> 
> I did some digging and found some interesting results.  The custom keybindings appear to be contained in one of three files under $HOME:
> 
> ./.gconf/apps/gnome_settings_daemon/keybindings/%gconf.xml
>  ./.gconf/apps/metacity/window_keybindings/%gconf.xml
> ./.gconf/apps/metacity/global_keybindings/%gconf.xml
> 
> I did not succeed in locating the default keybindings that appear to be global for all users, but there are some because a user that has no custom keybindings also has none of these files. 
> 
> The keybindings in the last two files (the metacity files) work.  Those in the first do not.
> 
> However, if I log in as a different user, those same keybindings all work.  I compared the files and the differences are all in the order of the entries, or just the times on those that are in the same order. 
> 
> I tried killing the gnome-settings-daemon, and it respawned just fine, but the keys still don't work.
> 
> Oh, yes: the keybinding for a log-off shortcut never works.  Period.
> 
> ???
> 
Now I am completely mystified - all the shortcuts are working again (except the logoff, of course).

I didn't change a thing since my last login, and I have no idea what happened.

Weird.