How to make the menu key your mod key too?
Hello. I set my mod key to be the "super" key. This setup needs two very precise and small additional features: 1. I'm really used to using the alt-tab for window switching. How can I set alt-tab to work for switching windows like before? Just to reiterate, even though I set mob to be "super key" before, I would like alt-tab to work as usual, like in vanilla xmonad. 2. And two, I would like there to be a mod key on the right side of the keyboard too. So I decided to use the "menu key" for that. How do I map my "menu key" to be mod too? I'm wondering if someone has done this or knows how to do it. Thanks very much in advnace for your kind help and concern. jenia ================================================================================= This is my config file: import XMonad import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog main = xmonad =<< statusBar cmd pp kb conf where cmd = "xmobar" pp = xmobarPP kb (XConfig {XMonad.modMask = modMask}) = (modMask, xK_b) conf = myConfig myConfig = defaultConfig { borderWidth = 2 , terminal = "urxvt" , modMask = mod4Mask }
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 2:30 PM, jenia.ivlev
1. I'm really used to using the alt-tab for window switching. How can I set alt-tab to work for switching windows like before? Just to reiterate, even though I set mob to be "super key" before, I would like alt-tab to work as usual, like in vanilla xmonad.
You can still bind things explicitly using mod1Mask instead of mod4Mask or the convenience modMask. See below. 2. And two, I would like there to be a mod key on the right side of the
keyboard too. So I decided to use the "menu key" for that. How do I map my "menu key" to be mod too?
This is a little more involved, since we rely on X11's keyboard handling instead of trying to interpret nonportable keycodes directly. The Menu key is not a modifier key in common X11 keymaps, but is bound to xK_Menu. You need to undo this, either using Xkb (a crawling horror which is "recommended" but which even those who recommend it do not fully understand) or xmodmap; I use the latter. This is also available as http://lpaste.net/117177 import XMonadimport XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLogimport XMonad.Util.EZConfigimport qualified XMonad.StackSet as W main = xmonad =<< statusBar cmd pp kb conf where cmd = "xmobar" pp = xmobarPP kb (XConfig {XMonad.modMask = modMask}) = (modMask, xK_b) conf = myConfig myConfig = defaultConfig { borderWidth = 2 , terminal = "urxvt" , modMask = mod4Mask , startupHook = spawn "xmodmap -e 'add mod4 = Menu'" } `additionalKeys` -- alternatively, consider XMonad.Actions.CycleWindows which includes a -- more Windows-like alt-tab mechanism (cycleRecentWindows) -- http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Actions-CycleWindows.htm... [((mod1Mask, xK_Tab), windows W.focusDown) ] -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 02:36:17PM -0500, Brandon Allbery wrote:
This is a little more involved, since we rely on X11's keyboard handling instead of trying to interpret nonportable keycodes directly. The Menu key is not a modifier key in common X11 keymaps, but is bound to xK_Menu. You need to undo this, either using Xkb (a crawling horror which is "recommended" but which even those who recommend it do not fully understand)
I use the Xkb way here [1] to remap keys and assign modifiers. In this particular case I used a special "none" modifier which removes the key from all the modifiers, this one is not nicely documented, but other than that the Xkb resources seem to provide decent info. [1] https://gitorious.org/xmonad-smartphone-config/xmonad-smartphone-config/sour... -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) software! mailto:fercerpav@gmail.com
Thanks very much. I managed to make it work using xmodmap and xev keysym Menu = Super_L Thanks and Happy Holidays!!
Thanks at lot. It worked perfectly. I managed to make the "menu" key into a super key too. You can use `xmodmap`: keysym Menu = Super_L You can figure out the names of the keys using `xev` Now I'm totally set. Thanks again and happy Holidays.
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