I have an Ubuntu 16.04.5 server installation with XFCE**. Every time I hit Alt-Gr
+ e
(Euro sign), Alt-Gr
+ .
(ellipsis) and other combinations involving the right alt key, XFCE completely freezes. This occurs also when entering these just on the desktop. The only way to recover is switch to another tty
and issue sudo killall Xorg
, then restarting XFCE.
I found this thread on the Arch forums: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=218524
But the solution does not apply, since I start XFCE from tty
via $ xfce
with
$ cat .xinitrc
session=${1:-xfce}
case $session in
i3|i3wm ) exec i3;;
xfce|xfce4 ) exec startxfce4;;
# No known session, try to run it as command
* ) exec $1;;
esac
So no meddling with dbus here. How can I start tracking the problem down?
** No, I don't want xubuntu since I need the longer LTS support of core Ubuntu on this machine.