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ryanaghdam

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From: Somerville, MA

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Emacs Keybindings in Tiling Window Managers

In the past, I've configured both Gnome and Xfce to use emacs key bindings.  Applications follow these settings as well, so that C-a, C-e work as expected in the address bar of chromium, for example.  Does anyone know how to do something similar for a tiling window manager such as StumpWM or Ratpoison?

Theomachos

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Re: Emacs Keybindings in Tiling Window Managers

Could you be more precise ?
Setting up keybindings is explained in the Stumpwm/Ratpoison documentation.... *confused*

http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/manual/stumpwm.html

http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/doc/

Last edited by Theomachos (2010-06-06 20:59:05)

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upsidaisium

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Re: Emacs Keybindings in Tiling Window Managers

Ratpoison already uses Emacs / GNU Screen style (chainable) keybindings -- but in Ratpoison most commands are prefixed by a C-t rather than C-x, C-a, etc.. Of course, as Theomachos mentioned, you can make custom keybindings.

Perhaps a clearer example of what you want to accomplish would help?

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chpln

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Re: Emacs Keybindings in Tiling Window Managers

If I understand right, Emacs-style keybindings for input fields (for example) are handled by the toolkit or application, not by the window manager.  In the case of GNOME / Xfce, this can be done by modifiying .gtkrc-2.0.  This should also work under ratpoison or StumpWM for any programs using GTK.

~/.gtkrc-2.0

gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"

Were there any particular programs you were having trouble with?

ryanaghdam

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From: Somerville, MA

Registered: 2009-12-26

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Re: Emacs Keybindings in Tiling Window Managers

If I understand right, Emacs-style keybindings for input fields (for example) are handled by the toolkit or application, not by the window manager.  In the case of GNOME / Xfce, this can be done by modifiying .gtkrc-2.0.  This should also work under ratpoison or StumpWM for any programs using GTK.

~/.gtkrc-2.0

gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"

Were there any particular programs you were having trouble with?

This is exactly what I was looking for.  Thank you!