here is some more troubleshooting:
0. rebooted the system
1. created a bash script, that just appends current date and time to a some log
file:
#!/bin/bash
date >> ~/date.log
2. went to System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Custom Shortcuts,
created a new shortcut with command /home/stepank/log.sh and bound it to
Ctrl + Shift + M
3. opened console, typed tail -f ~date.log, opened several windows
(Skype, Pidgin, Google Chrome, gedit) and pressed Ctrl + Shift + M from
all the windows, so far everything worked fine, i saw several new lines
with date in console
4. after about 10 minutes the hotkey stopped working if it is fired from
gedit (if i hit it from gedit, there appears no new lines in the log, if
i hit it from any other window, new lines readily appear)
5. killed gnome-settings-daemon, the hotkey stopped working at all
6. ran xev | sed -n 's/^.*state \([0-9].*\), keycode *\([0-9]\+\) *\(.*\),
.*$/keycode \2 = \3, state = \1/p' to grab events. pressing Ctrl + Shift + M
with focus on Event Tester resulted in the following lines written in console:
keycode 37 = (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), state = 0x0
keycode 50 = (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), state = 0x4
keycode 58 = (keysym 0x4d, M), state = 0x5
keycode 58 = (keysym 0x4d, M), state = 0x5
keycode 50 = (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), state = 0x5
keycode 37 = (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), state = 0x4
This looks ok. According to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hotkeys/Troubleshooting,
this is a desktop issue, what should i do next and what information is needed
to move this bug to Confirmed state?
** Attachment added: "dmesg.log"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1064248/+attachment/3427643/+files/dmesg.log
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Title:
hotkeys do not work in ubuntu 12.04
Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
I use Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (all updates are installed) with Unity 2D and
I've stumbled upon this issue: sometimes shortcut keys stop working in
some windows. For instance, I have these windows opened usually:
Google Chrome, Terminal, Skype, Pidgin. Sometimes everything is OK and
shortcuts work no matter what window I hit them from, however, hotkeys
hit from Skype (most often) or Pidgin (less often) do not work time
after time (just no reaction when I hit them), but they still work
from Terminal or Google Chrome. Moreover, not all hotkeys are
affected, the problem holds only for locking the computer (Ctrl + Alt
+ L) and other custom shortcuts like executing some command or
launching a program (I used `zenity --entry` with `[Super | Ctrl] +
[some letter: K, N, etc]` for testing). I expect that all mentioned
shortcuts work no matter what window they are fired from. I also
should mention, that I had no such problem on Ubuntu 11.10.
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