Re: [dev] dwm default bindings

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:07:42PM -0400, Donald Allen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Donald Chai<donald.chai_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jul 22, 2009, at 2:22 PM, Donald Allen wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Michael<misha_AT_netspark.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Donald Allen wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I realize that these bindings can be changed. But that requires some
> >>>> work (and knowledge of C) on the part of the user. I'm talking about
> >>>> the choice of the defaults. Perhaps the keys modified by alt should
> >>>> instead be modified by ctrl-alt by default? And similarly, alt-shift
> >>>> -> ctrl-alt-shift? I am going to test this idea by modifying my setup.
> >>>> I'll let you know how it works out.
> >>>
> >>> ctrl-alt, alt-shift, ctrl-shift non-english speaking people usually use
> >>> those keys for layout change, win-key is perfect solution, but not all
> >>> keyboards have those.
> >>> there is no default keys to satisfy even majority, i think, so why
> >>> bother, if majority will have to edit those keys anyway.
> >>
> >> I don't buy that argument. Why not pick the set of defaults that
> >> satisfies the largest minority?
> >
> > It *is* the set of defaults that satisfies the majority.
>
> You are responding to something I didn't say. Read again.
>
>  I think many
> > people change the setting to Mod2Mask to use the Windows key, but the
> > current default of Mod1Mask will work out of the box for anyone who doesn't
> > have a Windows/Apple/diamond key.
>
> That's true. But it also conflicts with a widely-available UI
> convention, alt-based keyboard accelerators. And there are other
> possible defaults that use only ctrl and alt that don't exhibit this
> conflict.
>

at the risk of being patronising, why not just buy a cheap keyboard for
10euro/usd or whatever? surely it can not be that difficult to find an
old and cheap keyboard for your machine which does not have the extra
key on your current keyboard?

> >
> > If the only modifier keys on your keyboard are CTRL and ALT, I suggest
> > mapping one ALT key to Mod1 and the other to Mod2.  I've noticed that I
> > rarely use the modifier keys on the right-hand side anyway...
>
> Good idea.
>
> >
> >
>

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