[clfswm-devel] Some news on the latest SVN/GIT version

[Philippe Brochard]

Hi all,

In the latest SVN/GIT version, bindings are done with a hook
(*binding-hook*) at runtime. This let you change the default binding
with a simple reset-clfswm and you have a more precise access to the
default binding.
Here is the content of the default *binding-hook*:

*BINDING-HOOK*=(INIT-*INFO-KEYS* 
                INIT-*INFO-MOUSE*
                SET-DEFAULT-INFO-KEYS
                SET-DEFAULT-INFO-MOUSE
                INIT-*MAIN-KEYS*
                INIT-*MAIN-MOUSE*
                SET-DEFAULT-MAIN-KEYS
                SET-DEFAULT-MAIN-MOUSE
                INIT-*SECOND-KEYS*
                INIT-*SECOND-MOUSE*
                SET-DEFAULT-SECOND-KEYS
                SET-DEFAULT-SECOND-MOUSE)

The bad news is that this change may break your configuration file.
To change the default keybinding, you have to attach a new hook to
*binding-hook*. See doc/dot-clfswmrc for some examples.
A quick example is as follow:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
(defun my-binding ()
  (define-main-key ("a" :alt) 'open-menu))

(add-hook *binding-hook* 'my-binding)
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Another big change is that you can have some default modifiers enabled
for all keys (numlock is the main example).
You can push some values in the *default-modifiers* list or more
friendly you can use the functions with-capslock, with-numlock,
without-capslock, without-numlock.

Another thing, there is now some aliases for mod-* modifiers. ie you
can use :alt as a modifier instead of :mod-1.
The full list is:

*modifier-alias*='((:alt :mod-1)     (:alt-l :mod-1)
                   (:numlock :mod-2)
                   (:super_l :mod-4)
                   (:alt-r :mod-5)   (:alt-gr :mod-5)
                   (:capslock :lock))


Have fun,

Philippe

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Philippe Brochard    <pbrochard at common-lisp.net>
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