Debian's package of keynav giving issues: BadAccess

[ReneFroger]

Hi there! Thanks for your work, it's really appreciated. However, I ran into some issues to get working.
My system is Xubuntu 18.04.1 LTS, with i3 window manager.

I installed keynav with sudo apt install keynav.

It seems it's installed when I ran it with:

$ keynav -v
keynav 0.20110708.0

When I start keynav with $ keynav, I get the following error:

X Error of failed request:  BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
  Major opcode of failed request:  33 (X_GrabKey)
  Serial number of failed request:  18
  Current serial number in output stream:  22

Any idea what's going on there?

[ReneFroger]

Still same issue. Any update on this?

[ivanhercaz]

Same issue here with the same output and using i3.

[hiqua]

No problem on Debian with i3,

$ keynav -v
keynav 0.20180421.git6505bd0d

Can you double check that keynav is not already running? ps aux | grep keynav

[cuppajoeman]

Yup, I was getting this error, and it was already running haha. i3 + arch

[hiqua]

The real issue is about UX then, there should be user-friendly message instead of this BadAccess message.