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diff --git a/software/debian.page b/software/debian.page index c2767fc..61226bb 100644 --- a/software/debian.page +++ b/software/debian.page @@ -120,3 +120,30 @@ of the header folders in /usr/src, then run `apt-get install -f` and `apt-get autoremove`. See also: http://mike.mcmurray.co.nz/2012/11/apport-disk-full-error-using-apt-get/ + +XFCE4 Keyboard Settings Broken Under Jessie: xfsettingsd +---------------------------------------------------------- +I had a very strange problem after running a dist-upgrade with debian jessie. +This was on a laptop which was installed fresh with jessie while it was still +testing (around December 2014); I ran dist-upgrade in April 2015 around (or a +bit before) the official Jessie release. + +After updating packages and rebooting, my XFCE4 application keyboard bindings +were broken (eg, Super+t for xterm). Other symptoms were that system fonts got +subjectively uglier. The weird thing was that windows manager bindings (eg, +Super+F11 to maximize vertically) still worked. I keep my XFCE4 settings under +version control, along with the rest of my dotfiles, so initially I assumed +there had been some backwards incompatible change... I also suspected that +maybe the window manager initiation process had changed. My old .xinitrc has +always needed small tweaks for new OS releases. + +In the end, the problem seems to have been that ``xfsettingsd`` had crashed and +would not restart on new logins. Simply running this command from a terminal in +X11 once somehow magically fixed the problem, and ``xfsettingsd`` runs (with +corrected ``--sm-client-id`` arguments et al) on reboot, and my old keyboard +settings all work as expected. + +I tried a number of smaller fixes (including wiping ``~/.cache/settings`` from +the console), so it may have been one of those changes that ultimately fixed +everything. + |