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Re: Testing Menu managers in Debian



On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:25:59PM -0800, Ian Eure <ieure@debian.org> was heard to say:
> > > > | 	shortcut="Control+Mod1+x"
> > > >
> > > > Are there any other window managers (and their menu-methods) that
> > > > support this? If yes, it would be nice to add this feature to the
> > > > tests done.
> > >
> > > It's been a long time since I used wmaker. Does this binding spawn a new
> > > xterm, or focus an already-running xterm?
> > >
> > > It if spawns a new xterm, sawfish supports that type of binding as well.
> >
> >   Not via the menu files afaik -- sawfish just happens to have a builtin
> > interactive command to start an xterm.
> >
> No, sawfish most definately supports spawning programs via hotkeys... I 
> recall setting e.g. Ctrl-Alt-E to launch emacs.

  So if you put "shortcut=Ctrl-Alt-E" in something in /usr/lib/menu and
run "update-menus", you'll get that shortcut?

  I WROTE the initial menu-method for sawfish, and I edited it not long
ago, and it didn't support this undocumented "shortcut" file either
time.

> As to the issue of hotkey portability between windowmanagers, they seem 
> different, but similar enough that some glue could be written to handle the 
> cases where there is a conflict... e.g. sawfish uses emacs-style ''C-A-x'' vs 
> windowmaker's more verbose ''Control+Mod1+x''

  Yeah -- IF the shortcut format was specified and documented, it could
be converted easily enough.

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