cosmic-greeter default cosmic-comp keybindings are active on cosmic-greeter in greeter mode

COSMIC alpha 5

steps to reproduce:

with cosmic-greeter set as the greeter, reboot / power-on
wait to see the cosmic-greeter login screen
Super+b (default cosmic-comp keybinding for web browser), observe no change
Super+f (default keybinding for home folder), observe no change
Super+w (default keybinding for workspace switcher)
observe that you can see the web browser and file browser that were launched by the previous key bindings

Jan 13 '25 09:01 jokeyrhyme

I'm unable to reproduce this issue. Can this issue be closed?

Apr 15 '25 03:04 WatchMkr

Still happening for me in alpha 6

I wonder if there's left over configuration in /var/lib/cosmic-greeter or something? Or a side effect of the daemon grabbing the background and theme settings from a user?

Apr 16 '25 20:04 jokeyrhyme

That's odd. Which distro are you using?

Apr 16 '25 21:04 WatchMkr

That's Arch Linux using this package: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/cosmic-greeter/

Apr 17 '25 02:04 jokeyrhyme

okay, I've figured it out, sort of

the Arch Linux package for cosmic-comp is here: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/cosmic-comp/
it includes "usr/share/cosmic/com.system76.CosmicSettings.Shortcuts/v1/defaults" which comes from https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-comp/blob/master/data/keybindings.ron ( via https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-comp/blob/master/Makefile )
if i delete this file and /var/lib/cosmic-greeter/.config/cosmic then the unexpected keybindings go away
however, it also breaks my COSMIC session because none of the default keybindings are available and i don't have a mouse-only way to launch even a terminal in my current setup

Apr 23 '25 10:04 jokeyrhyme