For some reason, I think Compiz's "unredirect fullscreen" setting lets Compiz get keyboard combos even while using a fullscreen app. I don't have it installed here, so I can't try, but I think I could open an xterm while running Battle for Wesnoth.
On Feb 9, 2008 3:17 PM, Evan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is the only keyboard control that x locks, and it kills > x completely. There is no way to kill only the crashed full-screen app. > Non-fullscreen apps can be killed with xkill or others, but when an app > grabs the entire keyboard and crashes, it's Ctrl-Alt-Backspace or a hard > power-off, both of which make you lose unsaved work in other open apps. > > Ideally, x would allow window managers to permagrab certain key combos > regardless of who has the keyboard. This would allow people to kill apps > that grab the whole keyboard without killing everything else. It would also > allow media keys (volume, etc.) to work in fullscreen apps, as they > currently don't. > > I definitely agree with the fact that their should be an ability to add > custom keyboard shortcuts througFor h gnome keyboard gui. I'm using > fluxbox-keys now, but I remember being annoyed by that when I was still > using Gnome. > -- Mackenzie Morgan Linux User #432169 ACM Member #3445683 http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com <-my blog of Ubuntu stuff apt-get moo
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