Bug#460705: Breaks C-M-Backspace, C-M-f1, Pointer_EnableKeys

Trent W. Buck trentbuck at gmail.com
Mon Jan 14 18:08:06 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 04:56:26AM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> At the gdm login screen,
> 
>     - C-M-f1 will switch to vt1;
>     - C-M-Backspace will kill Xorg (whereupon gdm restarts it); and
>     - Pointer_EnableKeys toggles pointer (mouse) emulation.
> 
> >From gdm, I log in.  This starts ratpoison and urxvt as part of my
> ~/.Xclients script.  At this point the above bindings work.
> 
> If I start epiphany, the above bindings stop working; pressing them
> has no effect.  Neither unmapping (minimizing) nor closing the
> epiphany window helps, the bindings are still ignored by Xorg.
> 
> If I do `sudo invoke-rc.d gdm restart', the bindings start working
> again up until I launch epiphany.

I killed all twb-owned processes except for the following


    screen-+-emacs22-+-sh---ssh---ssh
           |         `-ssh---ssh
           |-ssh
           `-tail
    ssh
    ssh
    sshd

(Experience has shown that leaving gconf and/or dbus daemons around can 
fuck up attempts to clear user preferences.)

I then deleted the following dotfiles/dotdirs:

    .gconf
    .gconfd
    .gnome
    .gnome2         
    .gnome2_private
    .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2

these being all dotfiles/dotdirs matching the strings "gnome" or 
"gconf".  I then started gdm, logged in, and ran epiphany as normal.  
The problem still occurs.  I believe this demonstrates the problem is 
not caused by my gconf/gnome/epiphany settings.






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