Is a sticky Mod key a feasible option?

I have one question, concerning a feature wish. I don't have the Haskell chops to know whether it is feasible, so I thought I'd ask. Would it be possible to have an option to make the Mod key sticky? A sticky Mod key would make typing key combinations a little easier. BTW, I've been using xmonad for almost a couple of years. Until recently it was the only tiling window manager I'd ever used. This weekend I tried out one of the other tiling wm's, just out of curiosity. I won't mention any names, so not to badmouth another project, but wow. Seeing and using one of the alternatives made me better appreciate what an outstanding and superior piece of work xmonad truly is. Thanks to the developers and contributers for creating an indispensable program. David Cabana

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:45:42PM -0500, David Cabana wrote:
I have one question, concerning a feature wish. I don't have the Haskell chops to know whether it is feasible, so I thought I'd ask. Would it be possible to have an option to make the Mod key sticky? A sticky Mod key would make typing key combinations a little easier.
This sounds like something that is best handled in the server, rather than the client. This worked for me (using the xkbset package in Debian): xkbset sticky latchlock Cheers, Spencer Janssen

Similar to a sticky mod key would be to put most keybindings inside a submap using XMonad.Actions.Submap * On Monday, January 12 2009, Spencer Janssen wrote:
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:45:42PM -0500, David Cabana wrote:
I have one question, concerning a feature wish. I don't have the Haskell chops to know whether it is feasible, so I thought I'd ask. Would it be possible to have an option to make the Mod key sticky? A sticky Mod key would make typing key combinations a little easier.
This sounds like something that is best handled in the server, rather than the client. This worked for me (using the xkbset package in Debian):
xkbset sticky latchlock
Cheers, Spencer Janssen _______________________________________________ xmonad mailing list xmonad@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/xmonad
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David Cabana
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Spencer Janssen