Hey, I would like to be able to dynamically deactivate some of xmonad's hotkeys. Since keybindings are immutable, I tried to write an action which passes the key to the focused window if the hotkey is disabled. The best I could do is this: myKeys conf@(XConfig {XMonad.modMask = modm}) = M.fromList $ ... ( (controlMask , xK_o ), foo ) ... foo = do -- check if the hotkey is disabled. If yes, do: XConf { display = dpy, theRoot = rootw } <- ask io $ ungrabKey dpy anyKey anyModifier rootw spawn "xdotool key o" This more or less works for firefox, except that when I switch to my firefox- workspace, I first have to click into the window. In KDE applications like kmail this does work at all. Any ideas, why? There was once a patch which tried to solve the problem by moving keyActions to XState. (http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2008-July/006063.html) It seems, it never made it into xmonad, although this might be the best solution. Thanks, Stephan