[Tfug] Fluxbox key mapping

[Earl]

-- Glen Pfeiffer <glen at thepfeiffers.net> wrote:

>You can use at least some of the key names from xev in the 
fluxbox keys file. Maybe something changed since you tried it 
last? For example:

    Control Alt_R :Raise

>Then I tried this:

    Alt_R Control_R :Raise

>Pressing the right alt and right control keys together did not 
work. But pressing the right alt key and then succeeding that key 
press with the right control key did work. Does anybody 
understand why that is?

I don't really understand for fluxbox, but in fvwm there is a modifier key which sends the message "hey, wake up, something is going to happen."  This might be what happens in your situation.

For instance, I'm in Emacs and press CTRL and Emacs and fvwm know that something is going to happen.

If I press the key with the funny little flag on it while holding the CTRL key, a fvwm menu pops up.

If I hold the CTRL key and press x, Emacs knows it has something to do.

If I press CTRL and the flag key simultaneously, nothing happens.

If I hold the flag key and then press CTRL nothing happens as that order isn't mapped.

I think that's because the flag key can be used as a modifier so the key press order as well as the combination is important.

I don't know if this helps answer your question.

Earl

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