Maybe sendKey could help you. Have you tried something like this? import XMonad.Util.Paste [ ((0, xK_u), do spawn "..." sendKey 0 xK_u ) ] I tested it for a minute and it looks promising. Let us know what you find out. Cheers, Hendrik On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Mattias Pettersson wrote:

Hi there!

I would like to know(if possible) how to make the key escape do whatever it does as default behaviour and also do something more at the same time. In my case I also want to: spawn "conkeror -f unfocus".

This is mycode which binds the escape key making it useless in all other applications.

 xmonad $ defaultConfig        { modMask = mod4Mask        , keys = \c -> mykeys c `M.union` keys defaultConfig c        , terminal = "xterm"        , workspaces = workspaces'        , manageHook = manageHook' <+> manageHook defaultConfig       -- , layoutHook = layoutHook'        , startupHook = startupHook'        }    where        mykeys (XConfig {modMask = modm}) = M.fromList $             [ ((0 , xK_Escape), spawn "conkeror -f unfocus") ]

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