My laptop is running Linux Mint 17 XFCE Edition, and I'm trying to set it up so that I can use Emacs with my usual keybindings. These include certain autocompletion/fill commands involving Alt-Tab, and at present the OS's Alt-Tab and Shift-Alt-Tab application switcher intercepts any commands I try to use including these keys.I would like to be able to run some kind of monitor script that detects when Emacs is running (or focused, even), disables both Alt-Tab and Shift-Alt-Tab shortcuts, and then resets them once emacs is no longer running.My Attempted Solution: Based on a wonderful answer I received over at AskUbuntu to a related question using gsettings, I thought I'd try the following:#!/bin/bashdisabled=0 # Track whether or not <Alt>Tab and <Alt><Shift>Tab are currently disabledwhile true; do    isActive=$(wmctrl -lx | awk -v search=$(printf 0x0%x $(xdotool getactivewindow)) -v wm_class=$wm_class '{ if($1 ~ search && $3 ~ /emacs/) print $3 }')    if [[ $isActive !=  ]]; then        # echo active        if [[ $disabled == 0 ]]; then            # echo disable shortcuts            xfconf-query -c xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts -p /xfwm4/custom/<Alt>Tab -s             xfconf-query -c xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts -p /xfwm4/custom/<Alt><Shift>Tab -s             disabled=1        fi    else        # echo not active        if [[ $disabled == 1 ]]; then            # echo enable shortcuts            xfconf-query -c xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts -p /xfwm4/custom/<Alt>Tab -r            xfconf-query -c xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts -p /xfwm4/custom/<Alt><Shift>Tab -r            disabled=0        fi    fi    sleep 1doneWhile this does seem to set/reset the relevant keybinding settings, these settings won't take effect until I log out and log back in, which sort of defeats the purpose of this script. Is there some other command I need to run in order to get XFCE to process its keybinding settings after making changes? Should I not be setting the keybindings to empty strings to disable them? Or is there something else I'm missing here?I'm hoping/assuming there's a way to do this without having to log out/log back in, since that would definitely be more trouble than it's worth here.Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
Is there a way to restart XFCE with new settings from a bash script?
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If those settings are not applied, than your desktop is broken.Is xfsettingsd running and reacting? Is xfwm4 running and reacting?Join me in IRC for live help