[Bug] Keyboard shortcuts do not work when using SDDM

[CameronSas]

Description

Any shortcuts (default or custom) assigned in the budgie-control-center do not work when using SDDM. At first, I thought it may have been an issue with SDDM, but I switched to GNOME to see if I had the same issue and did not. I'm currently using LightDM and don't have any issues using shortcuts assigned in budgie-control-center, so I'd assume that SDDM and Budgie just don't play well with one another.

Budgie version

10.8.2

Operating System

Arch 6.5.8

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. Install SDDM & budgie pacman -S sddm budgie
2. Enable SDDM systemctl enable sddm
3. Reboot or start SDDM systemctl start sddm
4. Login to a budgie session and attempt to use media keys (such as volume +/-/mute or brightness +/-) or assign a custom keyboard shortcut in budgie-control-center (such as assigning Ctrl+Alt+T to gnome-terminal)

Actual result

Volume does not raise or lower when using media keys, brightness does not change when using brightness keys and any other default/custom shortcuts assigned in budgie-control-center do not work.

Expected result

Volume to raise or lower when using media keys, brightness to change when using brightness keys and any other default/custom shortcuts assigned in budgie-control-center to work.

Additional information

No response

[lucio796]

Hi, I am facing the same problem, did you find a solution?

[serebit]

I would recommend just switching to LightDM. There's a reason archinstall defaults to LightDM over SDDM when Budgie is selected.

Additionally, this will likely be affected (and probably fixed) by the Wayland transition, so I doubt this is going to be investigated until then.