On 10 February 2014 18:31, Calvin Morrison <mutanttur...@gmail.com> wrote: > make a hidden window, and set the window focus to it? that'd be my > guess. I don't think you can grab two non modifier keys though, < and >> for example probably wouldn't work with the way I am grabbing it. > I'd love too see some code. > > A visual hint could be nice. I definitely see the advantage of a modal > system because there are already so many shortcuts you can > accidentally interfere with,having just one to interfere with reduces > the issue. > > but then why not just use my program to launch a script with dmenu > (vertical version) and have a keybinding for that? eg: > > ALT+P spawns dmenu > dmenu shows > 1. mocp -g > 2. xterm > 3. firefox > > you press 3 and enter and it executes..? > > what do you think of that? > > On 10 February 2014 18:24, Michael Hauser <awarewa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Calvin Morrison writes: >>> I'm not sure what you mean by "modal bindings". Do you mean like >>> executing a hotkey like "Ctrl+:" to jump the hotkey program, then >>> pressing another key to execute a command? Sorry I'm not sure what you >>> are saying. >>> >>> Calvin >> >> Exactly! >> >> Use case: one hotkey (in my case: the useless '><' key on german >> keyboards) to activate a, let's call it COMMAND mode :), maybe a litte >> visual hint (I'm making the taskbar visible in dwm for now), that does >> nothing else than waiting for the next keypress. >> >> Have a look at dwm's keymodes patch, I really like this implementation. >> >> My hacked 'hotkey' version depends on some X11/event race condition, as >> I was able to figure out how to grab the whole kb for a while; but I >> haven't started to dig into the keymodes patch yet; therefore my >> suggestion to combine the two. >> >> Also the goal is to have a system that can be operaten with literally >> one finger alone, I think it would be a godsent for accessibility (not >> just when consuming yp *ducks* :). >> >> >> cheers, mih >> >> >> ps. I really like the poetic license! >> >> -- >> 'aware water' is an anagram for 'we are at war' >>
and here it is: $ cat modal.sh list="firefox chromium xterm xterm -e mocp" v=0 `for i in $list; do echo $v" "$i; v=$(($v+1)); done | dmenu -l 5 | sed 's/^[0-9] //g'` now it has some kinks, the whole for i in whatever in bash doesn't work quite properly becaue it works on spaces and newlines... not sure what to do about that. but i am sure there's a bash way to do it.