Xfce4 : Bug with key bindings

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 -, but you can bind -C . This behaviour affects only the xfce-keyboard-settings GUI, which is annoying but leaves us with a workaround using the following command line :

$ xfconf-query -c xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts -np "/commands/custom/<SUPER>space" -t string -s "gmrun"

This example binds - to gmrun (which, by the way, is a great lightweight alternative to Launchy for Linux).

This bug is already filed in the bugtrack of Xfce, let’s hope it will soon be fixed :-).