Lost settings (mouse, standard keyboard shortcuts) after reboot

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Edit: Ok so not technically ‘solved’ but since this was a fairly new install and I had my data on a separate partition and I needed a functioning rig now I just started from scratch. I’ll get the hang of this thing yet.

Hi community! First ‘real’ post here so I’m going to try and get it right.

This morning after I logged in after reboot I discovered that several shortcuts and settings were not functioning as they should. I keep discovering more as I sit here and work with the system but some examples are as follows:

The super key no longer pulls up the menu
Mouse settings (natural scroll and tap-to-click) are not working.
ctrl-alt-t no longer opens terminal

All of the application shortcuts seem to be fine - it’s just the system keyboard shortcuts that I’ve lost.

I’ve tried Syyu update, and I’ve checked logs, but I’m unsure of exactly where to start. Any pointers here would be greatly appreciated.

My system info:

System:
  Kernel: 5.9.16-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.9-x86_64 
  root=UUID=17c25bf4-3e40-40e9-b542-e2e591be63ad ro quiet apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 
  dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: XPS 13 9360 v: N/A serial: <filter> 
  Chassis: type: 9 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Dell model: 05JK94 v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI [Legacy]: Dell 
  v: 2.12.0 date: 05/26/2019 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 53.4 Wh condition: 53.4/60.0 Wh (89%) volts: 8.4/7.6 
  model: LGC-LGC7.790 DELL RNP726A type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-7200U bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Amber/Kaby Lake note: check family: 6 model-id: 8E (142) stepping: 9 
  microcode: DE L2 cache: 3 MiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx 
  bogomips: 21607 
  Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 400/3100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 801 3: 801 
  4: 800 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
  Type: l1tf 
  mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 620 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel 
  bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:5916 class ID: 0300 
  Device-2: Microdia Integrated Webcam HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
  bus ID: 1-5:3 chip ID: 0c45:670c class ID: 0e02 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 driver: loaded: intel 
  unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa display ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") 
  s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
  Monitor-1: eDP1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 168 size: 290x170mm (11.4x6.7") 
  diag: 336mm (13.2") 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.4 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:9d71 
  class ID: 0403 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.9.16-1-MANJARO 
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: Bigfoot Networks driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel port: f040 
  bus ID: 3a:00.0 chip ID: 168c:003e class ID: 0280 
  IF: wlp58s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros type: USB driver: btusb bus ID: 1-3:2 
  chip ID: 0cf3:e301 class ID: e001 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus ID: 1-3:2 
  chip ID: 0cf3:e301 class ID: e001 
  Message: Required tool hciconfig not installed. Check --recommends 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 173.37 GiB (36.4%) 
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Toshiba 
  model: KXG50ZNV512G NVMe 512GB size: 476.94 GiB block size: physical: 512 B 
  logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 rotation: SSD serial: <filter> 
  rev: AADA4101 temp: 40.9 C scheme: MBR 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: 29.3 GiB size: 28.71 GiB (98.00%) used: 17.2 GiB (59.9%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 
Swap:
  Alert: No Swap data was found. 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Info:
  Processes: 256 Uptime: 4m wakeups: 649 Memory: 7.41 GiB 
  used: 2.73 GiB (36.9%) Init: systemd v: 247 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 
  Packages: 1284 pacman: 1278 lib: 405 flatpak: 0 snap: 6 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.0 
  running in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.01
#2

Post administratively closed as the user re-installed their system and the problem went away all by its own.

:+1:

As you seem to be new to Linux and are in need of a :smiley: after reinstalling, please read this:

:wink:

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