[olug] xfce and the other guys

[Scott Jones]

On Sunday 18 December 2005 00:41, Eric P wrote:

> Scott, maybe you can answer a few XFCE questions for me.  I've tried
> a few times to switch to XFCE over the last 2-3 years, but I've run
> across a few obstacles that maybe you can help me with.

No guarantees, but I'll try.

> #1.  I like keyboard shortcuts for everything, but XFCE's solution
> for bringing up the app menu and context menu via keyboard shortcut
> is/was buggy (i.e., there is a line you can enter on the command
> line to bring up these 2 menus, but it didn't work correctly once
> tied to a shortcut).  Any ideas?

This has been fixed, and should work correctly as of 4.2.3 
(http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=441).

> Also, IIRC the apps menu would 
> show up near wherever your mouse was on the screen.  This isn't very
> helpful either.  the apps menu should come up from a fixed location
> like Gnome/KDE/IceWM/WindowMaker/etc.

By that, you mean when calling it up via the keyboard?  From what I can tell, 
when you run "xfdesktop (-menu|-windowlist)", it's treated as a mouse event, 
which is why it appears at the mouse's position.  I'm not a programmer, so I 
don't know how easy or difficult it would be to change this behavior, but 
feel free to file an enhancement request in bugzilla.

> #2.  The number of arbitrary apps/commands you can tie to a keyboard
> shortcut is limited to 10 I believe.  Is there a way to increase
> this?  I don't need that many more than 10, but somewhere around 15
> seems to fit my current work flow.  I believe I remember someone
> suggesting xkeys as the only solution to this limitation.

The suggestion might have been to use xbindkeys, which is what is currently 
recommended.  This is marked as WONTFIX for 4.2.x in bugzilla 
(http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749), as Olivier feels that this is 
a job for an separate shortcut manager. There will be a shortcut manager in 
4.4 (see http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1264#c1).

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