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[fluffy <fluffy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

In the last few days I've been having trouble with xfwm recognizing 
application shortcuts that are bound to <Primary>+shift+letter (for 
example, ctrl+shift+L).  This worked until very recently; I had 
shortcuts bound to ctrl+shift+[hjkl] so that I could warp the mouse 
cursor around with an app called xmousekeys (available at 
http://beesbuzz.biz/code/xmousekeys.php) and they all worked just fine, 
but recently they stopped working reliably.

Today I went into my application shortcuts preferences (under Keyboard) 
and when I tried editing the shortcuts, the following happened:

1: Press Ctrl, and it displayed <Primary>
2: Pressed (left) Shift, and it displayed <Primary>Shift_L
3: Press L, and it changed to <Primary>l  (note the lack of any shift 
modifier)

and then the resulting shortcut on the list was just <Primary>l, which 
is of course not what I wanted.  So I went in and did it again; the same 
sequence of events happened, but then after I finished setting the 
shortcut, the entry in my shortcut list disappeared entirely.  I suspect 
the logic might have checked for duplicates, saw the same entry as a 
"duplicate," and then removed it from the list.

I would really like to have this functionality working again, as I use 
it for ergonomic reasons.  In the meantime, I can try editing my xfwm 
configuration file directly, but it isn't clear to me how to do that 
anymore and have xfwm reload the settings without restarting entirely.

Associated packages:

ii  xfce-keyboard-shortcuts        4.10.0-0ubuntu1~ppa1           xfce 
keyboard shortcuts configuration
ii  xfce4-settings                 4.10.0-0ubuntu1~ppa2           
graphical application for managing Xfce settings
ii  xfwm4                          4.10.0-0ubuntu1~ppa2           
window manager of the Xfce project

Thanks.