On Tue, Nov13,01 10:00, Craig Thrall wrote: > > Now that I think about it...it does sound like it > > could be useful to have chained keybindings. I'm often > > running Win4lin or a vnc connection, and currently, > > I've got no way to Alt+Tab in Windows if I've got > > bbkeys set up to capture it. Now in general, I'd like > > bbkeys to handle the alt+Tab, but say if I pressed > > alt+M then alt+Tab, then pass that on to the current > > window. Not even sure if it could work that way, but > > just getting my opinion out in the open. > > I've had a similar experience...running vern (http://oneguycoding.com/vern/) > on Windows alongside XFree86 compiled with Cygwin leads to a situation where > blackbox and vern are both grabbing keys if I'm currently using the desktop > that's got blackbox running and want to switch to another Windows desktop. > Sorry...that's confusing. > > Anyways, in this situation, which sounds similar to using bbkeys with > Win4lin or vnc, would chained bindings help or not? Does bbkeys "pass on" > keystrokes to other apps if it decides it's not mapped in bb? Or do ALL > keys grabbed by bbkeys never get seen by other Windows apps? >
Well, obviously if all keys were grabbed by bbkeys, then you wouldn't be able to type much. So, in BB, you'd setup ^Z + Alt+TAB to change windows, and then just plain old Alt+TAB is avail for any Virtual environments that you're running, and so on. > Need more coffee to make sense... > Coca Cola! DC > Craig -- Derek Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All men by nature desire to know." -- Aristotle.
