I installed xbindkeys to catch my custom key shortcuts, and xte in order to emulate the key presses i want to execute. This does work, but with a lot of issues.
I have to press my key combination very many times in order to get it to work once in a while, the success rate on that being about 15% or so. So as recommended by the archwiki, i ran xbindkeys -n to see if any errors are encountered, which gave me the following output:
*** Warning ***
Please verify that there is not another program running
which captures one of the keys captured by xbindkeys.
It seems that there is a conflict, and xbindkeys can't
grab all the keys defined in its configuration file.
To my knowledge, i haven't installed any software that should conflict with catching pressed keys (at least not on purpose). I am running Xubuntu 20.40, and i don't know if any such software comes with it...
If it makes any difference, the keys are all defined with the Super modifier. I did remove all the default shortcuts from XFCE that implement the Super key, from the Keyboard > Application shortcuts, and from the Window Manager > Keyboard entries.
How would i check to see what is causing the conflict, and then go about resolving it?
echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE. – Alex Baranowski Jan 18 '21 at 12:35x11– Digital Ninja Jan 18 '21 at 12:44