Nonfunctional keybindings led me to odd budgie-daemon behavior

Budgie Desktop
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So this all started with Keyboard, the settings menu. I set up most of the first group of bindings.

  • Web browser → super+w
  • Terminal → super+q
  • Calculator → super+c
  • Home → super + e
  • Search → super + s

They didn’t work with alt and they didn’t work with Super. Pressing super causes a small disembodied text box to appear and do nothing for a while. I went troubleshooting for a few hours. I made sure Super wasn’t the window key, tried to make sure my daemons were working fine. That’s when this happened.

nori@noribox:~$ budgie-daemon
** Message: 15:39:59.999: libsession.vala:50: DESKTOP_AUTOSTART_ID not set, session registration may be broken (not running budgie-desktop?)
^C
nori@noribox:~$ budgie-desktop
nori@noribox:~$ budgie-daemon
** Message: 15:40:28.456: libsession.vala:50: DESKTOP_AUTOSTART_ID not set, session registration may be broken (not running budgie-desktop?)

** (budgie-daemon:629): WARNING **: 15:40:34.022: main.vala:29: budgie-daemon lost d-bus name org.budgie_desktop.BudgieOSD
** Message: 15:40:34.022: main.vala:32: Replaced existing budgie-daemon

** (budgie-daemon:629): WARNING **: 15:40:34.022: main.vala:29: budgie-daemon lost d-bus name org.budgie_desktop.MenuManager

** (budgie-daemon:629): WARNING **: 15:40:34.022: main.vala:29: budgie-daemon lost d-bus name org.budgie_desktop.TabSwitcher

** (budgie-daemon:629): WARNING **: 15:40:34.023: main.vala:29: budgie-daemon lost d-bus name org.budgie_desktop.Session.EndSessionDialog

So… any ideas?

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if your run budgie-wm --replace &! or logout and login do things start working again?

What version of budgie-desktop are you using? budgie-desktop --version and what version of Ubuntu Budgie are you using?

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nori@noribox:~$ budgie-wm --replace &!
[1] 8068
nori@noribox:~$
(budgie-wm:8068): mutter-CRITICAL **: 18:40:04.364: meta_sound_player_play_from_theme: assertion ‘META_IS_SOUND_PLAYER (player)’ failed

It never recovered, I had to ctrl-c

nori@noribox:~$ budgie-desktop --version
budgie-desktop 10.5
Copyright © 2014-2019 Budgie Desktop Developers

Ubuntu Budgie 19.10 eoan

It’s still not working. I’ll try logging again now.

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Strangely I’m having trouble logging out.

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It does sound that you have either uninstalled something critical or upgraded a critical package that is breaking stuff through a PPA - not sure what though.

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I had to “busier” out of it. I think bitcoind was hassling my logout. My keybindings work now! idk how but everything is fine now.