On Sun 10 Oct 2021 at 15:52:04 -0700, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: > Brilliant! You are indeed both correct -- my problem was mainly Num-Lock > (which on my keyboard is needed in order to enable the numeric keypad), > but when I tested, Caps-Lock also causes my bindigs to be ignored.
One shortcoming with the solution is that it doesn't work for the case when you have *both* of these modifiers active. This stems from the somewhat annoying fact that to make key mappings work, they have to be "grabbed" from the X server, including all modifiers that apply to them correctly set. So if you have a key mapping for plain 'X' and you ignore CapsLock and NumLock, ctwm needs to grab 'X', CapsLock+'X', NumLock+'X', and CapsLock+NumLock+'X'. If you were to ignore 3 modifiers, it would need to grab 8 different keys. Of course this gets out of hand very very quickly. And the person who wrote the IgnoreModifier code didn't think of this anyway, since it only grabs the keys with 1 modifier at a time... I don't know if there is a better solution than what I sketeched above. Because I dislike it so much, I haven't made such a change. I'm not sure if there is a better solution though... -Olaf. -- ___ "Buying carbon credits is a bit like a serial killer paying someone else to \X/ have kids to make his activity cost neutral." -The BOFH falu.nl@rhialto
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