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  1. Bug #1188569
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 1188569

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teo1978 (teo8976) wrote : Re: Some keyboard shortcuts randomly stop working

I see a bunch of apparently different issues described in several comments here.

What I observe on 16.04 is that, at random times (usually after booting, not sure if I ever observed it in the middle of a session), these shortcuts among others stop working: volume up/down keys, Ctrl+Alt+T for opening a terminal, PrintScreen and Shift+PrintScreen, and not sure what else. However, alt+tab and some others keep working normally.

When I observe this, unity-settings-daemon has NOT crashed (at least, ps aux shows it as a running process, I guess it means it has not crashed strictly speaking), contrary to comment 5.

Restarting unity-settings-daemon (by killing it, it restarts automatically) fixes the issue for me 100% of the times, without the need to do anything else.

Is this the same issue this report is about, or not?
I had reported it separately as issue 1731294 and I'm told it's a duplicate.

My impression is that there are several completely different issues here being mixed together, and 1731294 might be one of them.