Question about xfwm key assignments

Liviu Andronic landronimirc at gmail.com
Sat Oct 23 22:29:39 CEST 2010


Hello

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 10:11 PM, George De Bruin <sndchaser at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just installed Xubuntu 10.10, with Xfce 4.6.2
>
> I could have swore in some of the earlier versions it was actually
> possible to edit / add key assignments to xfwm?  I normally use <meta
> l> as the screen lock key as this is what many other desktops / wm's /
> etc. use. (Why the Xfce devs have chosen <ctrl><alt> <del> is quite
> baffling, really.)
>
You probably want Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts. At some point the
bindings got split into wm-related (WM > Keyboard) and custom ones.

Regards
Liviu


> I recall reading on the mailing list (sometime back - cannot remember
> when) that there was some transitional work going on and some of the
> configuration things were caught in the transition...but is there no
> way now to edit the key assignments?  It doesn't even appear that the
> Settings Editor allows editing the keys, or adding a new command / key
> configuration (the add button is greyed out).
>
> Any help or pointers is appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
>
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