Re: [dev] dwm default bindings

From: Antoni Grzymala <antoni_AT_chopin.edu.pl>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:00:45 +0200

Donald Allen dixit (2009-07-22, 20:07):

> > 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.
>
> >
> > 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.

Unless you happen to belong to the 95% (or so) of world population that
doesn't use an US keyboard-layout and often needs altgr for entering
diacritics and such.

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