vlamy <[email protected]> writes: Hi Vlamy,
> You can try furious lib for modal keybinding (it implements something > close to the suggestion of Uli). > > The principle is to define modes (à la Vim/Emacs) using awesome > keygrabbers. > > I use it daily for roughly one year, whith a spirit close to your use > case, excepted that I'm using weird keybinding from french dvorak > layout :) > > I never really released it, but it should be working. If you have any > question do not hesitate to ask me directly. > > url for furious : https://github.com/Vlamy/awesome-wm-furious I just cloned the repo, thanks, now I have to take a deeper look - could very well be the solution for my problem. > Le 17/04/2014 11:54, Thorsten Jolitz a écrit : >> Uli Schlachter <[email protected]> writes: >> >> Hi, >> >>> On 17.04.2014 10:40, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: >>>> having used Tmux on the console and Stumpwm with X quite some time now, >>>> I got used to have the same prefix (C-o) and more or less the same >>>> keybindings for both WM's, so I don't have think about being on the >>>> console or in an X session. >>>> >>>> Now awesome is really awesome and a strong competitor to stumpwm and I >>>> want to try it. Changing keybindings would be easy, but how to set a >>>> keychord (Control + o) as prefix instead of single keys that have been >>>> added to Mod4 is not so obvious (but maybe I missed something obvious >>>> here). >>>> >>>> Somebody somewhere asked about using C-M- as prefix (Control + >>>> Alt), and >>>> the answer was basically 'you can't'. >>> Well, everything is possible. >>> >>> In this case you would need to write something which catches the C-o >>> key press >>> and then "activates some mode" by registering your other keybindings >>> or starting >>> a keygrabber (so that e.g. Esc or some timeout can easily be used to >>> de-activate >>> this "mode" again). >> Not really something I would dare to try when I just want to compare >> awesome to stumpwm for a while. >> >>> However, it's not possible in the sense of "AFAIK no one wrote and >>> published >>> something that would make this easier". >> Thats basically a 'you can't' then, leaving only two options: >> >> 1. Two completely different sets of key combinations for tmux and >> awesome with all the guaranteed confusion. >> >> 2. Adapt tmux bindings to awesome bindings (use Mod4 as prefix) ... and >> relearn muscle memory from scratch. >> >> Option 2 looks better, but still not very attractive, to me. >> However, thanks for your answer. >> > > > -- > https://vlamy.fr -- cheers, Thorsten -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
