There is currently a little bug in Xfce4 which prevents you to bind the key combinations involving SPACE and ESCAPE. For example you can’t bind <WINDOWS>-<SPACE>, but you can bind <WINDOWS>-C . This behaviour affects only the xfce-keyboard-settings GUI, which is annoying but leaves us with a workaround using the following command line :
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Day: October 12, 2009
HAL + Xorg X server : Using HAL to set hardware specific configurations for Xorg Xserver
The Xorg X Server can now rely on HAL to get information about the hardware the machine is running. This allows the X Server to auto-configure most of its components such as keyboard / mouse / screen / graphic adapter. But there is still room for tweaking it if needed.
This post explains how to configure extra properties for a keyboard at the HAL level, so that X Server will correctly auto-configure it for you.