Keyboard shortcuts get reset at every login

[Andreas Hasenack]

I have two sets of keyboard shortcuts that I change from the defaults:
- ALT-T to open a terminal
- ALT-<N> to switch to workspace <N>

In unity 3d, when I logout and then login again, they no longer work. I go to the keyboard shortcut preferences, and they are still there. To get them to work again, I have to:
- disable the shortcut with the backspace key
- set it again to my desired value

Then it works as long as I don't logout again.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.6.0-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.29-generic-pae 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,resize,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,session,unityshell]
Date: Thu Mar 15 09:27:44 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120201.2)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Lee Willis (junk-talpa)]

I can reproduce this on two separate PCs that have upgraded from Oneiric to precise. In my case it's the navigation shortcuts that I set. They work fine as soon as they're set, but stop functioning if I log out and log in again.

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

I doubt if this is Unity related. Seems more to be GNOME Session related to me. Can you check if this can be reproduced in a session running GNOME Shell or Unity 2D?

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

Unity 2D is what I have happily been using since I opened this bug.
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Andreas Hasenack
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Bilal Akhtar <email address hidden> wrote:

I doubt if this is Unity related. Seems more to be GNOME Session related
to me. Can you check if this can be reproduced in a session running
GNOME Shell or Unity 2D?

** Changed in: unity
Status: New => Incomplete

** Also affects: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[everflux (tklaunchpad)]

I have the same problem with the gnome fallback session.
It is *really* annoying that alt-f7 is reset to initiate move window.
When trying to change it via ccsm it is directly reset in the session. When changed by gconf-editor, /apps/compiz-1/plugins/move/screen0/options/initiate_key it works at least for the current session and is reset after re-login. (But the value in the key /apps/compiz-1/plugins/move/screen0/options/initiate_key still keeps beeing empty, I have to open gconf-editor and touch the value again to gain an effect)

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

You should try to create a new user account and see if things work fine there for you. Feels to me like some user specific issue that would go away in a new user.

[Erdem (farukerdemoncel)]

I have the same problem. I set Ctrl-Alt-E for Emacs shortcut. But user defined shortcuts never works as expected. As Andreas mentioned you need to disable and set it again to make it work.

[Ursula Junque (ursinha)]

Hi,

This is happening but not at every login: I'm not yet able to trigger the problem consistently, but last time it happened I restarted lightdm to make unity work again and when I logged in the shortcuts were gone. This is happening at least twice a week since I upgraded from Precise to Quantal, and I can confirm the same problem happens in another different machine, also recently upgraded to Quantal. I have defined a shortcut to open xterm (another than the Open Terminal one), and it persists, but all the others I customized, such as moving between workspaces or toggle maximization state are gone.

Please, let me know if I can provide any other information.

Cheers,

[Maximilian Federle (ppd)]

I can confirm this behaviour on two entirely different laptops, both installed pre-release and then upgraded to final quantal.
Creating a new user does not help in any way.

[Tom Jaeger (thjaeger)]

This appears to be the fault of gsettings-data-convert. Deleting /etc/xdg/autostart/gsettings-data-convert.desktop fixes this issue for me.

[everflux (tklaunchpad)]

I have the problem with other settings apart from keyboard shortcuts on different machines as well.
(Focus behaviour, window raise behaviour)
Will try deleting the file data-confert file as well.

[Marius Kruger (amanica)]

thanks Tom, deleting /etc/xdg/autostart/gsettings-data-convert.desktop fixed it for me too.

[Tom Jaeger (thjaeger)]

I don't think gsettings-data-convert was the cause of this bug (still there is no reason to run it on every login). This appears to be compiz' fault, and should probably be a dup of one of the following two bugs:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/1063617
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/986208

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.