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Gew

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Registered: 2012-05-08

Posts: 4

Close "Conflicting actions.." (xfce4-keyboard-settings) dialog box

Hi!

This is a first world problem, or maybe not even that. It's just, sometimes I get mentally stuck in proof of concepts of .. well just "being able" to do stuff. Here's my current issue. When enter Keyboard Settings and go to Shortcuts, and try to set a keyboard shortcut that already exists for another command on something, then this dialog box "Conflicting actions..." pops up, asking me if I want to keep the old, or replace it. It seems, the only way I can "escape" this dialog box is using my mouse. The only thing I'm capable of doing with my keyboard is hitting the RETURN button which will do a replace of the existing hotkey. I'm struggling to find a way being able to use only the keyboard and choose to keep my existing, which seems impossible. The only way to achieve this seems to using my mouse and either clicking "Keep existing..", or clicking the cross in the upper right corner of the dialog box. ALT+F4 doesn't work, I've even tried setting a hotkey to do "wmctrl -c <nameofthisdialogbox>", but to no avail. In fact, as it turns out, this particular dialog box seems to be locking the keyboard more or less completely in Xfce. I can use to mouse to focus another window/application I have open, but in those I can not use the keyboard. The ONLY "keyboard action" I seem to be able to pull is CTRL+ALT+Fx to escape to a tty console. Everything else gets locked. Phew. Please don't ask "Why do you ever need this?" because like I said, it's really just a matter of proof of concept, trying to see if it's virtually possible. Of course, if I flee to tty console using the CTRL+ALT+F number I could kill the xfce4-keyboard-settings and this would keep current hotkeys, not overriding, but is there really no other solution?

Last edited by Gew (2025-04-10 23:37:54)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,847

Re: Close "Conflicting actions.." (xfce4-keyboard-settings) dialog box

Probably best to create an issue here and have the developers look at it. I agree, Escape should cancel out of that dialog.

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