xfdesktop -menu ?

[Erik Harrison]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> Wolf Lichtenberger wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Brian James Tarricone wrote:
>>
>>> Mathieu L said:
>>>
>>>> I've just read the thread for a shortcut for rootmenu
>>>> (http://lunar-linux.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2004-March/010292.html) 
>>>> and that's
>>>> exactly what I'm looking for too, but unfortunately 'xfdesktop 
>>>> -menu` doesn't
>>>> work for me (I'm running xfce 4.0.4) so could you please, pretty 
>>>> please, include
>>>> this feature as soon as possible?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> right, this is a feature in CVS only, not in the 4.0.x branch.  it 
>>> seems like a pretty
>>> low-impact addition, so i wouldn't mind backporting it for 4.0.5.  
>>> i'm out of town for
>>> the rest of the weekend; i'll try to do it on monday.
>>
>>
>>
>> If it's not too much trouble, could you make it possible to use a tap 
>> of the "windows" key (which xev tells me is named Super_L) to get the 
>> menu, like icewm does?
> 
> 
> nope.  but you can probably bind something to run 'xfdesktop -menu' 
> after i add the feature using xbindkeys (xfwm4 has some keybinding 
> facilities, but i don't believe you can bind just a modifier key to a 
> command).
> 
>    -brian
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Not sure how you'd handle this in X, but Windows actually has a double 
meaning for the Win key - you can use it as a modifier, but if it's held 
without a modified key, it gets treated as Ctrl+Esc, which opens the 
windows menu.

-Erik