[olug] xfce and the other guys

[Eric P]

Scott Jones wrote:
>>#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).
> 

Thanks for the excellent reply w/the pertinent links!  In light of
it all, I think I'll wait for 4.4 to see how things are... then I
may just file that enhancement request.  It seems appropriate to
have the menu come from a fixed location when using a keyboard
shortcut; hopefully, the devs will think so too.

Eric P