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TLDR: I am trying to configure a keyboard shortcut from a script (on linux mint XFCE), but the preconfigured key binding gets in the way.

I have an installation script that installs apt packages, installs custom scripts, configures the OS, clones git repo's and installs hobby projects.

One of the things I want the script to do is to configure keyboard shortcuts for window snapping.
The idea is that if you press ctrl + shift + numpad[1-9] the window snaps to the associated location on the screen.

So ctrl + shift + 8 snaps the window to the top half of the screen

and ctrl + shift + 3 snaps to bottom lower corner.

I have the code roughly working:

XFCE_SHORTCUTS_FILE=~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml

XFCE_SHORTCUTS_BACKUP="$XFCE_SHORTCUTS_FILE.bak"

xfce_set() {

        key="/xfwm4/custom/$1"

        action="$2"

        xfconf-query --create -c xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts -t string -p "$key" -s "$action"

}

if [ ! -f "$XFCE_SHORTCUTS_BACKUP" -a -f $XFCE_SHORTCUTS_FILE ]

then

    cp -n "$XFCE_SHORTCUTS_FILE" "$XFCE_SHORTCUTS_BACKUP"

    xfconf-query -c xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts -p "/xfwm4/custom/<Primary><Alt>F10" -r -R

    xfce_set '<Primary><Shift>KP_Begin'     "maximize_window_key"

    xfce_set '<Primary><Shift>KP_Home'      "tile_up_left_key"

    xfce_set '<Primary><Shift>KP_Page_Up'   "tile_up_right_key"

    xfce_set '<Primary><Shift>KP_End'       "tile_down_left_key"

    xfce_set '<Primary><Shift>KP_Page_Down' "tile_down_right_key"

    xfce_set '<Primary><Shift>KP_Left'      "tile_left_key"

    xfce_set '<Primary><Shift>KP_Right'     "tile_right_key"

    xfce_set '<Primary><Shift>KP_Up'        "tile_up_key"

    xfce_set '<Primary><Shift>KP_Down'      "tile_down_key"

fi

Window snapping works for all of the corners and all of the sides.
By default linux mint binds maximize & restore window to alt + F10.
This is a weird combination with the corners and sides on numpad, so I want to map ctrl + shift + 5 instead.
I have already made an attempt to remap the key, but the old binding gets in the way.
I tried deleting the old binding first with xconf-query, but my attempt did not work:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts -p "/xfwm4/custom/<Primary><Alt>F10" -r -R

xfce_set '<Primary><Shift>KP_Begin' "maximize_window_key"

Just to be clear, I strongly prefer a solution that does not require me to reboot my system.