[xmonad] Xmonad shortcuts just stopped working

[Joseph Garvin]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <
ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 21 July 2011 13:33, Joseph Garvin <joseph.h.garvin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I turned on my machine today and Xmonad's keyboard shortcuts no longer
> work.
> > I haven't changed my config file in a long time, so I don't think that's
> it.
> > I can tell that the window manager is responding because focus still
> follows
> > my mouse fine.
> > *I didn't turn on numslock or scroll lock.
> > *I tried setting numlockMask to 0, didn't help.
> > *I have modMask set to mod4Mask, and if I run xev and press the Windows
> key
> > it says I'm pressing Super_L (which I believe is mod4).
> > *Adding shift, control, or alt when pressing the Windows key doesn't make
> > any of the shortcuts work either.
> > *I rebooted into Windows, and the Windows key works fine there so I know
> the
> > key isn't broken.
> > *If I run metacity instead of xmonad I can Alt+Tab and Press
> > Ctrl+Alt+Left/Right to switch desktops without a problem.
> > I'm at a loss for what to try next. Ideas?
> > My full config file is
> > here: https://github.com/jgarvin/joe-etc/blob/master/xmonad/xmonad.hs
>
> Try "xmonad --recompile && xmonad --restart" (doing this explicitly on
> the command line sometimes works, especially if you've upgraded a
> dependency of xmonad); drop the restart if you're doing it from
> another WM.
>

Didn't work. I tried manually deleting the .o, .hi, and xmonad-x86_64-linux
files to force the recompile just to be sure. I got a new binary, but it
still has the same problem.

Just to be doubly sure I plugged in an external keyboard, and the shortcuts
don't work when using it either.

-Joe G.
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