Re: [dev] dwm default bindings

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Donald Allen <donaldcallen_AT_gmail.com>wrote:

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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 inconsistency,
> which my fix does not, so in that way it is more confusing, at the
> expense of making the oft-used alt-<number> gestures somewhat less
> 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?
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> I'd just keep them consistent with the change you described above, so
> they'd just have ctrl added to what they are currently.
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> /Don
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> If you are proposing that we change the defaults, the least sensible option
is to change it to the windows key (mod4, not sure what that is on an Apple
keyboard). 99% of keyboards out there have the MOD4 key, it seems that least
of the people taking part in this discussion use it, and people who don't
have an mod4 key can change the default configuration.

Using ctrl-alt is cumbersome and I imagine that least dwm users would end up
changing it (and thus making it at most as bad as alt).
Received on Thu Jul 23 2009 - 15:38:31 UTC