newbie questions on xfce

[Alexander Toresson]

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Globe Trotter <itsme_410 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > (1) I would like to be able to keybind raising the
>> window to F1
>> > (let's say) and lowering the window using F2,
>> moving the window using
>> > F3. How can I achieve this?
>>
>> Check the keyboard settings in the Window Manager settings
>> panel.  I
>> believe you'll find everything you need there.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks very much! I have not been able to get this to work. Here is what I did:
>
> Go into Window Manager Settings. Go to Keyboard tab. It says Default and is all grayed out. Nothing can be done. All I can do is create a theme, which I do called MyTheme. Then the keyboard shortcuts are clickable but I can only delete key bindings. Anyway, I gave up after a while, and went to my .themes/MyTheme/xfwm4 and then manually set
>
> raise_window_key=F1

You're supposed to be able to double-click a keybinding and get a
window where you press the key to be used and it will be used instead.

> I exited. Now this entry shows up on the Keyboard shortcuts as above, but it does not work. I guess there must be a place where I have to be able to say that I am to use this theme? I do have the key shortcut theme highlighted in the Keyboard under Window Manager settings.

You should just need to select that wm shortcut theme for it to become active.

> I am using Fedora 8. I wonder if the installation of xfce on Fedora 8 has done some things which I can't figure out?

Well, we don't really know what (if any) patches fedora has applied to
Xfce, so there could be a potential source of problems there, but it
shouldn't be any problem.

> Any suggestions?
>
> Many thanks again,
> Trotter
> Many thanks,
> Trotter
>

// Alexander