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.
>>
>
>
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cheers,
Thorsten


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