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wildmind-ch

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Registered: 2014-02-20

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Trying to remap some keys in Xubuntu 13.10 / XFCE

Ok, this is driving me insane. I'm trying to map some hotkey shortcuts:

<super> w = up
<super> a = left
<super> s = down
<super> d = right
<super> [ = Home
<super> ' = End

This should also work:

<shift><super> w = select up
<shift><super> a = select left
<shift><super> s = select down
<shift><super> d = select right
<shift><super> [ = select Home
<shift><super> ' = select End

(Simply the text selection with shift and navigating)

In case you're wonding, this is some of the behavior that the KBC Poker keyboard has, and I'm trying to emulate it on my notebook so I have the same behavior on the go.

I've been on an odyssey for the last two days. Along with reading about xkb and xmodmap, I've tried AutoKey and now xfce4-settings-editor, which seems to have some hotkey configuration as well.

Nothing works.

In xfce4-settings-editor, I've tried this:

xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts -> xfwm4 -> custom > new entry "<Super>w", String, up_key

Infuriatingly, if instead of "up_key" I use "cycle_reverse_windows_key", it works. I can imeediately cycle the windows with <super> and w. I've copied up_key from another shortcut so it should be correct, though.

No idea what else to try.

Update: Apparently this is a bug in XFCE since other people in IRC couldn't get it to work with any shortcuts either. I filed a bug:

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10701

Last edited by wildmind-ch (2014-02-20 14:45:01)