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Keyboard shortcuts for tiling not working #647

Closed shlozm closed 2 years ago

shlozm commented 2 years ago

As per the man pages for icewm-keys which suggests the following:

These are key bindings for single window tile operations to replace the KeyWinArrange key bindings from the preferences file:

       key "Ctrl+Alt+KP_7" icesh -f sizeto 49% 49% top left
       key "Ctrl+Alt+KP_8" icesh -f sizeto 100% 49% top left
       key "Ctrl+Alt+KP_9" icesh -f sizeto 49% 49% top right
       key "Ctrl+Alt+KP_6" icesh -f sizeto 49% 100% top right
       key "Ctrl+Alt+KP_3" icesh -f sizeto 49% 49% bottom right
       key "Ctrl+Alt+KP_2" icesh -f sizeto 100% 49% bottom left
       key "Ctrl+Alt+KP_1" icesh -f sizeto 49% 49% bottom right
       key "Ctrl+Alt+KP_4" icesh -f sizeto 49% 100% top left
       key "Ctrl+Alt+KP_5" icesh -f sizeto 49% 49% center

I added the above to my keys file. I of course changed the keywinarrange shortcuts in my preferences to "", I also tried the above using Super as a modifier, nothing works. The only thing that works is using the arrow keys instead of the KP keys, such as key "Super+Left" icesh -f sizeto 49% 100% top left. (The keywinarrange keys do work when I don't have those keys assigned to tile operations) What am I missing?

cheapy commented 2 years ago

I suspect those keys don't work on your keyboard. Try assigning them to these keys instead: key “Ctrl+Alt+KP_Home” icesh -f sizeto 49% 49% top left key “Ctrl+Alt+KP_Up” icesh -f sizeto 100% 49% top left key “Ctrl+Alt+KP_Prior” icesh -f sizeto 49% 49% top right key “Ctrl+Alt+KP_Right” icesh -f sizeto 49% 100% top right key “Ctrl+Alt+KP_Next” icesh -f sizeto 49% 49% bottom right key “Ctrl+Alt+KP_Down” icesh -f sizeto 100% 49% bottom left key “Ctrl+Alt+KP_End” icesh -f sizeto 49% 49% bottom left key “Ctrl+Alt+KP_Left” icesh -f sizeto 49% 100% top left key “Ctrl+Alt+KP_Begin” icesh -f sizeto 49% 49% center

PS: I got that from a post by blur13 on www.antixforum.com

gijsbers commented 2 years ago

Don't you have a keypad numlock? Check what xev says for your KP. Also consult xmodmap.

shlozm commented 2 years ago

@cheapy, I will try that thanks. @gijsbers, I tried it with numlock on and off, xev does recognize the KP keys correctly, and the predefined Ctrl+Alt+KP_1 etc. to winarrange does work when not reassigned as I did. When I ran xmodmap I got this:

xmodmap: up to 4 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):

shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e) lock Caps_Lock (0x42) control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x69) mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Alt_R (0x6c), Meta_L (0xcd) mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d) mod3 mod4 Super_L (0x85), Super_R (0x86), Super_L (0xce), Hyper_L (0xcf) mod5 ISO_Level3_Shift (0x5c), Mode_switch (0xcb)

I don't know what that signifies if anything...

Thanks for everything you do for IceWM!

shlozm commented 2 years ago

@cheapy, that did the trick! Interestingly enough it makes no difference if numlock is on or off, even though in xev it's recognized differently... Thank you!