Keyboard shortcuts stop working; restarting unity-settings-daemon fixes them
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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unity (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
At random times, many keyboard shortcuts and special keys such as the following stop working:
- volume up/down/mute keys
- PrintScreen key and shift+PrintScreen shortcut
- Ctrl+Alt+T for terminal
and probably others. There are shortcuts that keep working, such as Alt+Tab, and if I remember correctly also Ctrl+Super+D.
This happens quite rarely.
UNLIKE #1459571, which is (supposed to be) fixed, restarting unity-settings-
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: unity 7.4.0+16.
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-98-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
.proc.driver.
.proc.driver.
.proc.driver.
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 340.102 Mon Jan 16 13:06:29 PST 2017
GCC version: gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~
.tmp.unity_
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnred
CompositorUnred
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Nov 9 16:45:13 2017
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: xenial
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0166] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [1025:0647]
NVIDIA Corporation GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/810M/820M / GT 620M/625M/
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] GeForce 710M [1025:0691]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (1489 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MachineType: Acer Aspire V3-571G
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 10/15/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
dmi.bios.version: V2.07
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: VA50_HC_CR
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: Type2 - Board Version
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:
dmi.product.name: Aspire V3-571G
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.76-
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
xserver.bootTime: Thu Nov 9 11:39:59 2017
xserver.configfile: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
xserver.errors:
NVIDIA(0): Failed to initiate mode change.
NVIDIA(0): Failed to complete mode change
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.version: 2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.7
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.