On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 03:36:52PM +0100, Fabien Meghazi wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Tycho Andersen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm not sure you can alias keys right now, although it shouldn't be
> > too hard to add (untested):
> >
> > commit a863863ca841463abcbcf871fc52b20e6e11e05f
> > Author: Tycho Andersen <[email protected]>
> > Date: Fri Dec 12 07:53:37 2014 -0600
> >
> > add lazy.fake_keypress('r')
>
> Thanks for your commit, this works with normal keys,
> unfortunately the XF86Copy, XF86Paste, ... etc seems to be ignored by
> everyone and thus has no effect.
Sorry, it looks like there was a typo in my message below...
> > ..and then do something like:
> >
> > Key([mod], "c", lazy.fake_keypress("X86Copy")),
> > Key([mod], "v", lazy.fake_keypress("X86Paste")),
These should be XF86Copy, instead of X86Copy; did you copy and paste
my error perhaps?
> So I wonder if it's possible to make this fake_keypress() function to
> actually simulate multiple keystrokes like Ctrl+C, Ctrl+P
I think so, you'll just have to set the right state bits in the event
you send to qtile. I can post a patch for that if you want.
> I know that other tools such as xbindkeys would be more appropriate
> but as I want to put some logic behind (eg: on Win+C keystroke, send
> Ctrl+C instead except if current focuses application is a terminal) I
> find it appropriate in my use case to put it in my qtile config.
No problem, it seems like a reasonable thing to want to do, so I don't
have any issue with building better support for it.
Tycho
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