On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 04:53:29PM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On Oct 18, 2007, at 13:16 , David Roundy wrote:
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 07:23:15PM +0300, Valery V. Vorotyntsev wrote:
BTW, could someone tell me, why does , ((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_a), renameWorkspace defaultXPConfig) work and , ((modMask, xK_A), renameWorkspace defaultXPConfig) (no shift, the capital `A') does not?
Not me... (and not because I'm being unfriendly, either)
Because xmonad listens on untranslated key events, whereas xK_A is a translated key event (the translation absorbing the shift status). This is also why there are problems when numlock/capslock are engaged: translation normally removes those, but the window manager bindings operate at a lower level.
Note that, while xmonad could be changed to operate on translated events, that could cause other problems: notably, for those of us who can't allocate e.g. a Windows key to xmonad, we would lose the ability to pass through modifier bindings that xmonad itself doesn't use.
Thanks for that clear explanation! -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University