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I upgraded Ubuntu 14.10 to 15.04 and ALL my Keyboard shortcuts are broken.

I mean shortcuts like ctrl+alt+t, fn+any arrows.

I checked keyboard settings and all is turned on.

Any idea how to fix it ?

Am using notebook y50-70.

Zanna
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Pawliko
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Your gnome-settings-daemon isn't starting on boot, for some reason. The workaround to that is to add gnome-settings-daemon to Startup Applications or add it as a .desktop entry, into /home/yourusername/.config/autostart/ directory. The .desktop entry could be named gnome-settings-daemon.desktop and look something like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=gnome-settings-daemon
Hidden=false
Name=gnome-setting-daemon

This is my guess on why that daemon isn't starting: Ubuntu 15.04 , from what I've heard, has switched for different system for starting processes at boot - there used to be upstart and 14.04 (which is what I use) has that. Meanwhile 15.04 uses systemd . My guess is that this transition has broke some things, but hopefully by the time we get to next LTS release, everything will be fixed

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
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Just do this via terminal, is a bug.

sudo apt-get remove appmenu-qt5
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove appmenu-qt5

then log out and probe... this works for latex

Angel Manrique Pozos Flores
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I made a clean install to Lubuntu 18.04 I found myself with the same issue, hotkeys were not working. After reading openbox-lxde help web pages I noticed that the required software packages were missing. When installing the OS I recalled having selected a minimal install; I thought that would account for the missing packages. The working solution I applied was to issue the following commands:

sudo apt install openbox-lxde-session
sudo openbox-lxde --reconfigure
Guest
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In my case the gnome-settings-daemon process was hang:

0 D alex   3798  3587  0  80   0 - 472136 rpc_wa Apr18 tty2    00:00:17 /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon

I just killed it and it reloads automatically. After that everything is working properly.

Zioalex
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Go to your home directory.

$cd ~
$ls -a

You can see .gconf directory. If you remove this directory you will come back to your default desktop settings.

rm -rf .gconf/

Restart

It is an easier way of resetting back to your default desktop configuration. I hope this works for you.

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