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Background

In xfce4, pressing Ctrl+Alt+End hotkey cycles to the next workspace. The settings for this can be displayed from the command line using:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts -lv | grep -i end

This reveals:

/xfwm4/custom/<Alt><Control>End            move_window_next_workspace_key
/xfwm4/default/<Alt><Control>End           move_window_next_workspace_key
/xfwm4/default/<Primary><Alt>End           move_window_next_workspace_key

Problem

When using VNC to connect to a Windows terminal, Windows authentication software prompts the user to send Ctrl+Alt+End to authenticate.

Question

How do you remove the hotkey for Ctrl+Alt+End so that the hotkey passes through to VNC?

Idea

The following did not work:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts -p "/xfwm4/default/<Alt><Control>End" --type string --set ''
xfconf-query -c xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts -p "/xfwm4/custom/<Alt><Control>End" --type string --set ''
xfconf-query -c xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts -p "/xfwm4/default/<Primary><Alt>End" --type string --set ''

The hotkey continues to cycle the desktops.

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  • As far as I remember, vnc translates Ctrl+Alt+End to Ctrl+Alt+Del on the viewed machine because it assumes that both server and viewer are windows machines. Wouldn't it be better if vnc did not do this on a non-windows host?
    – aquaherd
    Oct 26, 2014 at 15:37

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Reset to default
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Try removing (or changin) the appropriate entry(s) in the ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml file.

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  • Thanks, Emil, but the values mapped for Alt+Control+End in that file are currently empty strings.
    – Dave Jarvis
    Nov 10, 2014 at 21:31
  • maybe a global config in /etc. try find /etc -name xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml
    – Emil Vatai
    Nov 11, 2014 at 11:54
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I'm a programmer. I use defaults. Hard-coded defaults that can be overwritten by a variable. Which I again set to my default as an example...

So, have you tried setting it to something else then a null string? comes to mind... ;)

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