Re: [dev] dwm default bindings

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Donald Allen<donaldcallen_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Szabolcs Nagy<nszabolcs_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 7/23/09, Donald Allen <donaldcallen_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>>> fix it, when (in my opinion) a reasonable fix exists (change
>>> alt-<non-numeric> to ctrl-alt-<non-numeric>), even for keyboards
>>> without the Windows key.
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>> editing ctrl-alt out from the default config is more work than just
>> changing the mod key definition
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>>> window manager with defaults that interfere with a well-established UI
>>> convention that spans many applications makes no sense to me,
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>> the ctrl-alt is better in that sense but still not very usable
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>> anyway, i could agree with the change if it's just
>> #define MODKEY Mod1Mask|ControlMask
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> I believe this would have the effect of changing alt-<anything> to
> ctrl-alt-<anything> and also alt-shift-<anything> to
> ctrl-alt-shift-<anything>, yes?
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> If so, that makes sense to me. It preserves the current consistency,
> which my fix does not, so in that way it is less confusing, at the
> expense of making the oft-used alt-<number> gestures somewhat more
> awkward to type. But it accomplishes the primary goal of getting the
> defaults out of the way of the application UI gestures. And, has been
> discussed to death here, many with Windows keys will alter their
> configurations to use them.
>
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>> what would you use for toggleview and toggletag?
>
> I'd just keep them consistent with the change you described above, so
> they'd just have ctrl added to what they are currently.

I just checked out the original config.h and I see the problem now --
they *already* use ctrl. Let me think about it ...

/Don

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Received on Thu Jul 23 2009 - 15:44:25 UTC