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Dreameen

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-09-06

Posts: 252

Win key(Super_L) in XFCE4?

Is it possible to bind win key in XFCE4???

I suppose it is, but how?

Dreameen

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-09-06

Posts: 252

Re: Win key(Super_L) in XFCE4?

Nevermind. I've found this great prog called xbindkeys and it does the magic for me

RedShift

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2004-07-16

Posts: 230

Re: Win key(Super_L) in XFCE4?

Nevermind. I've found this great prog called xbindkeys and it does the magic for me

Can you tell me how to work with it? :-D
Does it also work with gnome?

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Dreameen

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-09-06

Posts: 252

Re: Win key(Super_L) in XFCE4?

I think it works with every WM out there. To get it working you just have to:

1. pacman -S xbindkey
2. Edit the .xbindkeysrc file in your home directory and add any shortcuts you wish to use. The syntax is quite straighforward so you shouldn't have any problems with it.(hint: win key=Mod4).

So for example:

"rxvt"
Mod4+r

3. Now you want xbindkeys to run automatically everytime you enter GNOME. I can't help you with that because I've never used GNOME before. In my case I just put in a startup script directory which is scanned everytime I run XFCE4.

detto

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Registered: 2006-01-23

Posts: 510

Re: Win key(Super_L) in XFCE4?

configuring xbindkeys to start a program like xterm for example is pretty easy imo, but what about windows manager functions like "shade","sticky" and so on? how do i get the right commands for that so that i can write them down in .xbindkeysrc too?

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Win key(Super_L) in XFCE4?

Using the evdev driver for your keyboad will make it much easier to bind stuff to Mod4... However, it also seems to preclude zapping X with ctrl-alt-backspace, which can be a *huge* problem.

jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: Win key(Super_L) in XFCE4?

configuring xbindkeys to start a program like xterm for example is pretty easy imo, but what about windows manager functions like "shade","sticky" and so on? how do i get the right commands for that so that i can write them down in .xbindkeysrc too?

Most windowmanagers supports configuring keybindings (and some even have a GUI for it, for example kcontrol for KDE and obtuner for openbox) - what wm are you using?

detto

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Registered: 2006-01-23

Posts: 510

Re: Win key(Super_L) in XFCE4?

Atm im using Pekwm because of its simple and effecitve default keybindings (with MOD4 aka winkey) but would love to go back to Xfce4 but use exactly the same keybindings like in Pekwm.

So, Xfce is "my" desktop    

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Win key(Super_L) in XFCE4?

Well here's something... Apparently binding Mod4 in XFCE will work again with GTK 2.10, which is why they're not going to fix it. Not sure what to think of keybinding functionality being transferred to GTK though. :?

detto

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Registered: 2006-01-23

Posts: 510

Re: Win key(Super_L) in XFCE4?

Hey Jones,

sounds promising!
When can we ARchers expect a 2.10 release of GTK ?

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Win key(Super_L) in XFCE4?

When the devs feel like recompiling lots of stuff.

(Cairo 1.2.0, on the other hand, is fully compatible with 1.0.x, so I wouldn't be surprised if it popped up in the repos pretty soon.)

TomE

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Registered: 2005-08-06

Posts: 164

Re: Win key(Super_L) in XFCE4?

For some reason the gui you enter the shortcuts in is not recognising the button press.
But if you edit ~.config/xfce4/shortcuts/theme_name.xml by hand it will work eg.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<shortcuts-theme name="theme_name">
    <shortcut command="thunar" keys="Mod4+e"/>
</shortcuts-theme>

detto

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Registered: 2006-01-23

Posts: 510

Re: Win key(Super_L) in XFCE4?

For some reason the gui you enter the shortcuts in is not recognising the button press.
But if you edit ~.config/xfce4/shortcuts/theme_name.xml by hand it will work eg.

<xml> 
<shortcuts> 
   <shortcut> 
</shortcuts>

Will definitely try this out pretty soon and inform u of success
Thx!