Re: [wmii] Fwd: Re: wmii post from perl@gmx.org requires approval

Are not the keybindins active only in the current active X window that has
the clicked or sloppy focus... Whats the point?
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 09:26:15AM +0000, Salva Peiró wrote:
> On 4/6/06, zimba.tm <zimba.tm_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 April 2006 11:38, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> > > If someone presents a nice idea which works with sh, maybe in
> > > conjunction with awk, I'm open to do it. Otherwise blame X that
> > > it needs to grab shortcuts and there is no portable way to get
> > > keyboard events in any other way.
> >
>
> As talked yesterday on irc, about removing the duplicity of having to write
> the keybindings in two places (and thus keep them consistent), so as
> garbeam suggested, i've wrote a wmiirc that greps itself for extracting the
> list of keybindings to be grabbed, and then write them to /def/keys,
> and also grouped all the key handling related stuff in a handlekeys function.
>
> Now, more than ever, I think a advice/comments regarding this behaviour,
> it's worth, just because it's not the default way of doing things, and because
> it can obviously have unwanted side effects, due to grep matching '$MODKEY.*)'
> that we don't want:
>
> <snip>
> MODKEY=M4 # changed $MODKEY to Mod4 (instead of $MODKEY=Alt)
> <snip>
> that matches '$MODKEY=Alt)'
>
> <snip>
> klist=`grep '$MODKEY.*)' $HOME/.wmii-3/wmiirc |
> sed -n 's/^[ ]*//g; s/).*$//; s/$MODKEY/'$MODKEY'/; 2,$p'`
> <snip>
> also as the grep command in wmiirc, used to extract the keys matches itself:
> '$MODKEY.*)', it has to be dropped by sed that discards it's first match.
>
> by now i've placed:
> handlekeys() {
> # greps wmiirc itself, to extract keybidings to be un/grabbed or reacted
> # you're adviced to be careful, because putting $MODKEY.*), could trash
> # /def/keys and result in a apparently strange key reacting behavious at worst.
> ...
> }
> (it's long but necessary, tand now hope that people read their wmiirc :-P)
>
> That's all, now it's your turn
> Regards
> --
> gualteri (at) rootshell.be/~gualteri

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