This thread indicates that in 3.8 media keys, layout, etc, have been moved over to gnome-shell
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1262471 I guess it is time to switch over to xfsettingsd On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Tom <t...@virta.be> wrote: > Hey all, > > > awesome wm with gnome-session <..> all sorts of issues since upgrading > to 3.8: > > > > - layouts not switching > > - media keys not working > > - indicator icons (battery,layout) not showing up > > > > However, all works very well indeed in gnome-shell, so looks like it is > > something in the way awesome interacts with > gnome-session/settings-daemon. > > I just wanted to confirm this. I don't have media keys or a laptop; in my > case > I noticed because of the broken keyboard layout switching, the fact that > the > screen no longer blanks after the time I set in gnome-control-center, and > the > fact that my wallpaper is no longer managed. > > If it matters, I start gnome-settings-daemon in my .xinitrc (and have done > so > since forever). The only thing it still appears to handle is the GTK theme. > > I could resort to separate tools for all those things, but since the > problem > only started with the 3.8 upgrade, I intended to write to this list to > check > if something might be off with gnome-settings-daemon. (I didn't yet, > because > I thought it might be useful to check with a new user first, which I > haven't > gotten around to yet). > > So I'm curious as well on how to go about finding out what's wrong.. > > Best, > Tom > > -- > np: nothing > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-gtk-gnome-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131121113818.gb3...@virta.be > >
