[xmonad] New User Impressions

[Mike Sampson]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Adam Vogt <vogt.adam at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you have a recent haskell X11 binding (>=1.4.4 I think) that had access
> to those headers when compiled, then you will have the module;
>
> Graphics.X11.ExtraTypes.XF86
>
> which exports functions like xF86XK_AudioLowerVolume, which should be the
> same as those raw numbers.
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/X11
>
> * On Friday, January 30 2009, Khudyakov Alexey wrote:
>
> >
> >> It doesn't support "extra" keys such as XF86Back XF86Forward etc; these
> >> keys are recognised by recent versions of X11, and are recognised by
> >> other window managers such as Fvwm, but when I tried making keybindings
> >> for them in xmonad, it didn't work, and the documentation didn't include
> >> them in the list of supported keys.
> >>
> >I'm not sure whether it should be called supported or not but you can use
> >them. You only need to specify raw numbers in config. Someting like this:
> >
> >> -- XF86Music
> >>   , ((0,                   0x1008ff92   ), do_something)
> >
> >You can find numbers in /usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB (in Debian)
>
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Great tip. Thanks. I have just been hardcoding them in xmonad.hs. I'll check
that out when I get home.
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