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leukipp / cortile

Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support for Openbox, Fluxbox, IceWM, Xfwm, KWin, Marco, Muffin, Mutter and other EWMH compliant window managers using the X11 window system. Therefore, this project provides dynamic tiling for XFCE, LXDE, LXQt, KDE and GNOME (Mate, Deepin, Cinnamon, Budgie) based desktop environments.
https://github.com/leukipp/cortile-addons
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How to change the key binding from Ctrl + Shift to Super Key? #53

Closed radiaated closed 5 months ago

radiaated commented 5 months ago

Hello, I am on Linxu Mint XFCE.

I keep triggering the tiles events whenever I try to select the text by pressing "Control + Shift + Left/Right Arrow Key". I tried changing the "Control + Shift" part of the key binding to "Mod4" and it keeps opening the menu at the bottom. So i would want to know if there's a proper way to do it without breaking anything. Thank you.

leukipp commented 5 months ago

I tried changing the "Control + Shift" part of the key binding to "Mod4" and it keeps opening the menu at the bottom.

I'm not sure what you mean with the menu on the button. Did you check if your key binding is already in use by some operating system shortcuts? Cortile may also print some warnings (of already binded keys) if you start it over the terminal.

If you replace the "Control + Shift" bindings with a "Mod*" key, you may also need to temporary comment this two lines: https://github.com/leukipp/cortile/blob/b92d436382ca78e71222e11d087b1c9041718ac9/config.toml#L182-L186

radiaated commented 5 months ago

Pressing windows/super key opens the start menu on the panel is what i meant to say. I wanted to know if there's a support to set Super key to be the mod key or do I need to disable the OS's binding for super key in order for this to work?

leukipp commented 5 months ago

I wanted to know if there's a support to set Super key to be the mod key or do I need to disable the OS's binding for super key in order for this to work?

Yes, any kind of overlapping and existing key bindings have to be removed, before you can register them to cortile.

Did you also try "Control + Mod4 + " or "Mod4 + Shift + "?

radiaated commented 5 months ago

Did you also try "Control + Mod4 + " or "Mod4 + Shift + "?

only Mod4 like in i3wm. Not any sort of binding of Mod4 key with other keys

leukipp commented 5 months ago

Please comment the existing "Mod4" bindings (as mentioned above) and try this key binding: 

# Toggle between enable and disable on the current screen.
toggle = "Mod4-T"

This works on Ubuntu XFCE, you may have to remove some existing shortcuts.

radiaated commented 5 months ago

I manually unbind the existing Window Manager's shortcut keys for Super Key that were causing conflict as it said it the log and gave them new bindings as I liked. The way to do it remove the existing OS's binding and now it works. Thank you.