That's fantastic! I was not even aware this had been implemented. It would appear the man page is out of date. Thank you!
--Jason -----Original Message----- From: toobuntu [mailto:toobu...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:54 AM To: Cook, Jason Subject: Re: [Freerdp-devel] Do not override window manager key bindings. $ xfreerdp -h | grep K: -K: do not interfere with window manager bindings On Mar 14, 2012, at 2:32 PM, "Cook, Jason" <jason.c...@wesd.org> wrote: > I know I'm resurrecting this idea, but I still see a need for it (others have voiced the same on the mailing list in the past). Is there a way to prevent xfreerdp from overriding my window manager key bindings? I've re-posted my initial request below along with the response from Mads. It gives some examples of why this feature would be useful. > > There used to be a wish-list on the old website and this feature made it to that list. I can't find it any more. Shall I create a new feature request for this? Is there still anyone interested aside from me? > > --Jason > > > Re: [Freerdp-devel] Do not override window manager key bindings. > From: Mads Kiilerich <mads@ki...> - 2010-09-20 20:48 > > Cook, Jason wrote, On 09/20/2010 08:11 AM: >> Is there a way to bring back this feature from rdesktop? >> >> -K Do not override window manager key bindings. >> >> freerdp is currently difficult to use with keyboard-driven window managers such as ratpoison or stumpwm since the freerdp session grabs all keyboard input. Things also get complicated when trying to take a screenshot of the session. Keybindings to a scrot script are swallowed, regardless of the window manager being used. I've not yet found a workaround for this. Is there a compile-time fix or is it something we can expect in a future release? > > That depends on when someone contributes a good patch ;-) > > > I'm however not sure one single option is good. It is my experience > that such options never does what I want. > > > I think it would be nice to have configuration for > > * which shortcuts should be handled locally and which should be > forwarded (for example that alt+tab should be handled locally) > > * remapping of keys (for example win+tab to alt+tab) > > * shortcut for de-focusing xfreerdp so it no longer captures any keys > (like when the pointer leaves the window) > > /Mads > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also > focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > _______________________________________________ > Freerdp-devel mailing list > Freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Freerdp-devel mailing list Freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel