On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 11:33:14PM -0400, Derek Cunningham wrote: > On Wed, Jul10,02 22:16, Ben Jansens wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hey folks. > > > > So, work has begun as of tonight on a next generation key handler for > > blackbox. It will be written against the NETWM spec as much as possible. But, > > we're not sure just what kind of feature people out there want in their > > keyhandler. So, I'd like to take a bit of a poll. > > > > Do you use the window list cycling currently found in bbkeys? > > > > yes I do... but it's useless, for me at least. > > What I WOULD like to see is an emacs-like ability to string characters > together. ie: CTRL+Z+R will perform some action, and CTRL+Z+T will perform > some other action. Think that's doable?
Or maybe distinguish sth. like vi's command and insert mode. "Insert" mode would give the focused window control over the keyboard, "Command" mode would give control to the key grabber; and special (vi-like) commands could be issued: e.g. typing "20j" in command mode would move the current window 20 times down. Or: different windows could be assigned to differnt keys. This way one could easily switch between last used windows. Or: Typing "sP7" could be interpreted: start the program (which was assigned to key P) and put it to workspace 7. And so on... The command mode key could e.g. be Ctrl; so by pressing Ctrl+F1 one could still switch workspaces by a 'single' keystroke. This would be a nice feature, especially as this concept might prove to be very flexibe and might make mouses a bit more useless (or who uses a mouse in vi?). > > DC > > -- > Derek Cunningham > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Human beings act intelligently only after they have > exhausted the alternatives" -- Abba Eban > > Registered Linux User Number 195825
