Issues getting xephyr to recognize my key commands

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Issues getting xephyr to recognize my key commands #52

Closed ihowell closed 7 years ago

ihowell commented 7 years ago

Hello. I know this isn't really a nwm issue, but I want to start contributing and have issues setting it up. I've gotten nwm to run on my machine (Arch) standalone, but I haven't been able to get it working in dev mode while using i3. I start the server with xephyr and everything, but it seems like xephyr isn't capturing my key commands. How can I forward the commands when I'm focused on the xephyr window?

ihowell commented 7 years ago

After some tinkering I realized that xbindkeys conflicts with the shortcut methods of nwm. Disabling this allows mod keys to be forwarded to Xephyr, just have to renable when done.