Calvin Morrison writes: > make a hidden window, and set the window focus to it? that'd be my > guess. I don't think you can grab two non modifier keys though, < and > > for example probably wouldn't work with the way I am grabbing it. > I'd love too see some code.
Yes, I tried to load/unload the grabs as needed in my ugly hack :) > > A visual hint could be nice. I definitely see the advantage of a modal > system because there are already so many shortcuts you can > accidentally interfere with,having just one to interfere with reduces > the issue. I like this idea, but unfortunately it's beyond my understanding of the X11 system; Though I'd love it, if someone could point me in some proper direction for example/tutorial code. > > but then why not just use my program to launch a script with dmenu > (vertical version) and have a keybinding for that? eg: Simply put: I think this approach is too slow. I dabbled with dmenu and too many keys hit just get lost, while starting up dmenu. > > ALT+P spawns dmenu > dmenu shows > 1. mocp -g > 2. xterm > 3. firefox > > you press 3 and enter and it executes..? > > what do you think of that? > Muscle memory is really fast, the idea is a good one, but I believe even with prelinking dmenu's libs it wouldn't be as efficient as a standalone utility. cheers, mih ps. sorry about my rusty active english skills :) > On 10 February 2014 18:24, Michael Hauser <awarewa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Calvin Morrison writes: > >> I'm not sure what you mean by "modal bindings". Do you mean like > >> executing a hotkey like "Ctrl+:" to jump the hotkey program, then > >> pressing another key to execute a command? Sorry I'm not sure what you > >> are saying. > >> > >> Calvin > > > > Exactly! > > > > Use case: one hotkey (in my case: the useless '><' key on german > > keyboards) to activate a, let's call it COMMAND mode :), maybe a litte > > visual hint (I'm making the taskbar visible in dwm for now), that does > > nothing else than waiting for the next keypress. > > > > Have a look at dwm's keymodes patch, I really like this implementation. > > > > My hacked 'hotkey' version depends on some X11/event race condition, as > > I was able to figure out how to grab the whole kb for a while; but I > > haven't started to dig into the keymodes patch yet; therefore my > > suggestion to combine the two. > > > > Also the goal is to have a system that can be operaten with literally > > one finger alone, I think it would be a godsent for accessibility (not > > just when consuming yp *ducks* :). > > > > > > cheers, mih > > > > > > ps. I really like the poetic license! > > > > -- > > 'aware water' is an anagram for 'we are at war' > > > -- 'aware water' is an anagram for 'we are at war'
