Cannot use Super key in combinations

Dani dani at damufo.com
Fri Jul 31 09:15:57 CEST 2020


> The general problem is that Xfce process key binds on key press, not on
> key release. But there are plans to make this configurable in 4.16.

This is very interesting.
In my opinion, currently the shortcuts are a bit scattered, some on the 
keyboard and some on the window manager.

Dani

O 30/07/20 ás 11:14, Silvio Knizek escribiu:
> Am Donnerstag, den 30.07.2020, 12:07 +0300 schrieb cloun:
>> Hello. There is another problem in XFCE that I can spot.
>>
>> I cannot use the key <Super> (on most keyboards it is the good old
>> Windows key) in the key combinations until the whisker-menu is bound to it.
>>
>> For example, if I keep the bond and want to use <Super>+D as a
>> combination to show the desktop, I will end up with a desktop AND the
>> menu. The same if I want to use <Super>+T as a combination to spawn a
>> terminal window: the whisker opens as well.
>>
>> Suggestion: do not process key binds until they are all released. (But
>> it may be hard to implement though, because as far as I reckon it is the
>> default OnKeyPress behaviour than can be relied on heavily throughout
>> the DE).
> Hi,
>
> the setting with the Super key is something specific to Mint, nothing
> in the default settings (nothing you can even set with the default
> tools).
> The Mint project sets this binding hard via the global XML config for
> Xfce in /etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-
> shortcuts.xml
>
> The general problem is that Xfce process key binds on key press, not on
> key release. But there are plans to make this configurable in 4.16.
>
> BR
> Silvio
>
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