Some Media Keys (Not all) and custom keyboard shortcuts irregulary don't work after boot/reboot

[Bastian Baum]

After boot or reboot some media keys (Volume Up/Down) don't work, but others do (e.g. Brightnes Up/Down). Custom Keyboard Shortcuts then don't work at all. When a non working media key oder shortcut is pressed the following message appears in syslog:

gsd-media-keys[2016]: Could not find accelerator for accel id 169

This happens irregulary. Sometimes everything works, sometimes it doesn't work as described above until next reboot.

This bug was first reported here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/issues/151 (And also here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1817286 but important information is provided by first link)
Benjamin Berg, Maintainer of gnome-settings-daemon, found out it's related to budgies implementation of gsd-media-keys. Please look at this issue for logs and details. He even pointed out where the root issue might be (It seems like 'UngrabAccelerator' isn't implemented correctly)

I can only reproduce this bug inside budgie desktop enviornment, not inside an ubuntu gnome session installed via 'sudo apt-get install ubuntu-gnome-desktop'

Ubuntu Version: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
gnome-settings-daemon Version: 3.28.1-0ubuntu1.1
Kernel: 4.18.0-15-generic
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Budgie:GNOME 10.4

EDIT: Added Budgie Desktop Version
EDIT 2: Link added

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

Thanks - I've raised this upstream for you

https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop/issues/1763

[Bastian Baum (protree)]

Thanks, I suscribed it

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

Note - there is a workaround as detailed here:

 - https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/volume-up-down-calculator-ctr-altl-t-windows-key-a-and-more-not-working-anymore/140/85?u=fossfreedom

[Bastian Baum (protree)]

Good to know! I only searched the web for the syslog-output which doesn't seem to be mentioned in this thread, so I didn't find it. It was hard to believe I am the only one affected. I will try it out, thanks.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package budgie-desktop - 10.5~git20190308-0ubuntu1

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budgie-desktop (10.5~git20190308-0ubuntu1) disco; urgency=medium

  * Bug fix release
    - Fix broken custom keyboard shortcuts
      gnome-3.32-compatibility.patch refreshed with fixes
    - Create mkrelease tarball with latest available translations
    - Fix for keyboard shortcuts occasionally stop working
      (LP: #1818978) cleanup-keygrab.patch
    - Add desktop-override.patch to ensure Budgie overrides do not
      impact other GNOME based desktop settings
    - Fix FTBFS due to incorrect Wnck WindowTypes
    - Refresh 0001-Polkit-Correctly-handle-the-user-dismissing-the-auth.patch
      due to changes to the gnome-3.32-compatibility.patch
    - Start GNOME Calendar in normal window on launch - not maximised

 -- David Mohammed <email address hidden> Sat, 09 Mar 2019 23:32:08 +0000