#1 2016-10-02 18:39:25

paxmark1

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Registered: 2015-10-02

Posts: 45

dmenu xfwm4 4.12.3-3

lxqt with openbox and  dmenu has always been easy - facile.

On one of three lxqt  machines I went to xfwm4.  It is the direction they (lxqt) are leaning towards.

But try as I might via the xfwm4 gui or looking at ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/ and xmlcopyeditor xfwm4.xml   is not the right one.  xmlcopyeditor xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml   is what feeds into the xfwm4 gui but it is a different flavour of xml than I am used to in openbox xml

  <property name="&lt;Primary&gt;&lt;Alt&gt;Home" type="string" value="move_window_prev_workspace_key"/>
      <property name="&lt;Alt&gt;F4" type="string" value="close_window_key"/>
      <property name="&lt;Primary&gt;&lt;Shift&gt;&lt;Alt&gt;Left" type="string" value="move_window_left_key"/>
      <property name="&lt;Alt&gt;F6" type="string" value="stick_window_key"/>

versus

  <!--Keybind for dmenu-->
    <keybind key="A-F3">
      <action name="Execute">
        <name>dmenu</name>
        <command>dmenu_run -b</command>
      </action>

that I love so much from openbox's rc.xml  I suppose I should read up more on  xml and   types and values.  Yes I have been looking at the XFCE4 pages for a few months on this, but no luck at that either. 

Any help appreciated, but if this question withers on the vine here (since most aren't using xfwm4) -  am O.K. with that also.  Y'all are the easiest to talk to.  Peace out.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: dmenu xfwm4 4.12.3-3

Why not just use

xfce4-keyboard-settings

then add the keybinds via the "Application Shortcuts" tab?

EDIT: sorry, I misread the OP, you're using LXQt, yes?

EDIT2: I would be tempted to start up `xfsettingsd` and then apply the keybinds via the aforementioned GUI then `pkill xfsettingsd` -- the changes should "stick" afterwards 8)

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2016-10-02 19:15:26)

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ohnonot

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Re: dmenu xfwm4 4.12.3-3

it is a different flavour of xml than I am used to in openbox xml

  <property name="&lt;Primary&gt;&lt;Alt&gt;Home" type="string" value="move_window_prev_workspace_key"/>
      <property name="&lt;Alt&gt;F4" type="string" value="close_window_key"/>
      <property name="&lt;Primary&gt;&lt;Shift&gt;&lt;Alt&gt;Left" type="string" value="move_window_left_key"/>
      <property name="&lt;Alt&gt;F6" type="string" value="stick_window_key"/>

versus

  <!--Keybind for dmenu-->
    <keybind key="A-F3">
      <action name="Execute">
        <name>dmenu</name>
        <command>dmenu_run -b</command>
      </action>

it's not so different and actually much shorter than openbox'.
the only thing is the use of characters like '<' and '>' that have to be transcribed to '&lt;' and '&gt;', which makes the whole thing almost unreadable.
also i wonder what a custom command execution (like your demenu example) would look like.

how is xfwm4 otherwise? does it have e.g. versatile resize options (pseudo-tiling) like openbox?
in other words, can it be considered an alternative? isn't it much heavier?

paxmark1

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Registered: 2015-10-02

Posts: 45

Re: dmenu xfwm4 4.12.3-3

Sorry for the absence.  I appreciate the replies. 

how is xfwm4 otherwise? does it have e.g. versatile resize options (pseudo-tiling) like openbox?

It is supposedly to be (or is) more wayland compliant.  It is the choice of the lxqt dev's.  (There still is a choice in the gui between openbox and xfwm4).  It does not pull down a vast number of dependencies. So I am trying it out.  The documentation still could use some work.  Thanks.