[xmonad] Re: Passing ModMask inputs to application

4 Oct 2010

      Wei Hu  wrote:
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Hi,
I'm using NX to connect to a remote Linux box, and both machines are
running XMonad. How can I tell XMonad to pass every keyboard/mouse
input to the remote desktop? In other words, I would like the remote
desktop to "grab" my inputs, like the way VMWare and Remote Desktop
work on Windows.
Thanks,
Wei
Putting the application into "Full screen" mode is the only way really.
I run XMonad with an "escape key" (ctrl-i) which prefixes most of
XMonad's bindings. Other than making a copy of the bindings under an
escape key, I'm not sure how it would be done. Heres a possible
(untested) solution to avoid using submap for local commands:

    import XMonad.Actions.Submap -- for submap
    import XMonad.Util.Paste     -- for sendKey

    myKeys = M.fromList $ [...]
    myEscapedKeys = M.fromList [((prefixMask, prefixKey), submap . mkKeys myKeys)]
        where
            mkKeys keys = M.MapWithKey (\(m, k) _ -> sendKey m k) keys
    allKeys = M.union myKeys myEscapedKeys

Hope this helps.

--Ben

[xmonad] Re: Passing ModMask inputs to application

Ben Boeckel