search

ice-wm / icewm

IceWM releases only, see Wiki
https://github.com/ice-wm/icewm/releases
Other
289 stars 16 forks source link

Allow using Win95 keys for standalone keybinding #39

Closed exebook closed 3 years ago

exebook commented 3 years ago

There are WIN, START, MENU keys, those you know located somewhere between the ALT and CONTROL keys, they are named differently and have idfferent icons on various keyboars. They are super common like I barely ever see a (non Mac) keyboard without those. I love to bind certain actions to those because they are very close to my fingers, esp. switching between last two windows and zooming the current window. The problem is that IceWM does not allow that! I have to apply my own patch each time I update. The IceWM seem to treat those keys like modifier keys that can only be used to accompany some other "real" keys. But I do not care to use them as modifiers I just want them as a standalone keys. That is my feature request please.

I would not PR my "patch" because it basically deletes and comments out some useful for others code in some ugly and obviously wrong way, I do not even understand how it actually works I just hacked for a few hours (days actually) until I got it somewhat doing what I want. I recall it had if (win95) { clauses in the places of interest.

gijsbers commented 3 years ago

IceWM already binds those keys for various actions. They are Multi_key, Menu, Super_R. You can get details on them with xev. Maybe run xev under a dedicated Xephyr. Using xmodmap you could reassign them to something else.