[Xmonad] reserved keyboard shortcuts

Jason Creighton jcreigh at gmail.com
Wed May 30 20:06:17 EDT 2007


On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:14:35AM -0700, brad clawsie wrote:
> after an update from darcs, i see alt-LeftArrow and alt-RightArrow are
> no longer used as shortcuts, which is nice because they are used in
> firefox. alt-b is still in the default, which is used to access the
> firefox bookmarks menu.
> 
> i personally maintain a private Config.hs to deal with this, not sure
> if it is something worth addressing

One way to handle these types of problems is to use the "windows key" on
most keyboards as the modifier instead of alt. This neatly avoids almost
all keybinding conflicts.

Jason Creighton


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