On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Donald Allen<donaldcal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Szabolcs Nagy<nszabo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 7/23/09, Donald Allen <donaldcal...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> fix it, when (in my opinion) a reasonable fix exists (change >>> alt-<non-numeric> to ctrl-alt-<non-numeric>), even for keyboards >>> without the Windows key. >> >> editing ctrl-alt out from the default config is more work than just >> changing the mod key definition >> >>> window manager with defaults that interfere with a well-established UI >>> convention that spans many applications makes no sense to me, >> >> the ctrl-alt is better in that sense but still not very usable >> >> anyway, i could agree with the change if it's just >> #define MODKEY Mod1Mask|ControlMask > > I believe this would have the effect of changing alt-<anything> to > ctrl-alt-<anything> and also alt-shift-<anything> to > ctrl-alt-shift-<anything>, yes? > > If so, that makes sense to me. It preserves the current consistency, > which my fix does not, so in that way it is less confusing, at the > expense of making the oft-used alt-<number> gestures somewhat more > awkward to type. But it accomplishes the primary goal of getting the > defaults out of the way of the application UI gestures. And, has been > discussed to death here, many with Windows keys will alter their > configurations to use them. > >> >> what would you use for toggleview and toggletag? > > I'd just keep them consistent with the change you described above, so > they'd just have ctrl added to what they are currently.
I just checked out the original config.h and I see the problem now -- they *already* use ctrl. Let me think about it ... /Don > > /Don > >> >> >
