~/.fluxbox/keys galore!

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pianosaurus · Post by **pianosaurus** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:29 pm

I just made this, and I thought maybe others might find it useful. Of course, everybody has different needs, so go ahead and modify. I made the commands I use the most easely accessible.

~/.fluxbox/keys:

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## OC's fluxbox key bindings
## 
## The philosophy is that Mod4 (Tux/windows-button) is used for anything
## related to one window alone (usually the one with focus), the only
## exception being volume control, since games sometimes let Mod4 go through to
## the window manager.

################################################################################
## WM-Control:
################################################################################

# Window switching:
Mod1 Tab       :NextWindow                 # Switch to next window
Mod1 Shift Tab :PrevWindow                 # Switch to previous window

# Window moving:
Mod4 KP_Up    :Move 0 -5                   # Up
Mod4 KP_Down  :Move 0 5                    # Down
Mod4 KP_Left  :Move -5 0                   # Left
Mod4 KP_Right :Move 5 0                    # Right
Mod4 KP_Home  :Move -5 -5                  # Up/Left
Mod4 KP_Prior :Move 5 -5                   # Up/Right
Mod4 KP_End   :Move -5 5                   # Down/Left
Mod4 KP_Next  :Move 5 5                    # Down/Right
Mod4 F1       :SendToWorkspace 1           # To workspace 1
Mod4 F2       :SendToWorkspace 2           # To workspace 2
Mod4 F3       :SendToWorkspace 3           # To workspace 3

# Window resizing (move lower right corner):
Mod4 control KP_8 :Resize 0 -5             # Up
Mod4 control KP_2 :Resize 0 5              # Down
Mod4 control KP_4 :Resize -5 0             # Left
Mod4 control KP_6 :Resize 5 0              # Right
Mod4 control KP_7 :Resize -5 -5            # Up/Left
Mod4 control KP_9 :Resize 5 -5             # Up/Right
Mod4 control KP_1 :Resize -5 5             # Down/Left
Mod4 control KP_3 :Resize 5 5              # Down/Right

# Workspace handling:
Mod1 F1    :Workspace 1                    # Goto workspace 1
Mod1 F2    :Workspace 2                    # Goto workspace 2
Mod1 F3    :Workspace 3                    # Goto workspace 3
Mod1 Right :NextWorkspace                  # Goto higher ID workspace
Mod1 Left  :PrevWorkspace                  # Goto lower ID workspace
Mod1 Next  :ShowDesktop                    # Iconify all windows
Mod1 Prior :Deiconify AllWorkspace origin  # Deiconify all windows
Mod4 Next  :Minimize                       # Iconify active window
Mod4 Prior :Deiconify LastWorkspace origin # Deiconify last iconified window

# Fluxbox menus:
none Menu :RootMenu                        # Main menu
Mod4 Menu :WindowMenu                      # Window menu
Mod1 Menu :WorkspaceMenu                   # Workspace menu

# Misc:
Mod4 space :ToggleDecor                    # Toggle window decorations
Mod4 F4    :Close                          # Close window

################################################################################
## Application shortcuts:
################################################################################

# Screenshots:
Mod1 Scroll_Lock :Exec import ~/screenshot-`date +%d-%h-%Y_%H-%M-%S`.png
none Scroll_Lock :Exec import -window root ~/screenshot-`date +%d-%h-%Y_%H-%M-%$

# Volume control:
Mod4 KP_Add      :Exec amixer set Master 3+         # Increase master volume
Mod4 KP_Subtract :Exec amixer set Master 3-         # Decrease master volume

# XF86 extension keys:
none XF86AudioMedia :Exec beep-media-player         # Open media player
none XF86AudioPlay  :Exec beep-media-player -t      # Pause/unpause media player
Mod1 XF86AudioMedia :Exec beep-media-player -r      # Skip to previous track
Mod1 XF86AudioPlay  :Exec beep-media-player -f      # Skip to next track
none XF86AudioMute  :Exec amixer set Master toggle  # Mute/Unmute master channel
none XF86Favorites  :Exec xffm ~/                   # File browser
none XF86Mail       :Exec thunderbird               # E-mail client
none XF86HomePage   :Exec firefox                   # Web browser

# Misc:
Mod1 T     :Exec urxvt                              # Terminal
Mod1 C     :Exec LC_ALL="C" xcalc                   # Calculator
Mod1 F     :Exec xffm ~/                            # File browser
Mod1 Pause :Exec xrandr -s 0                        # Reset resolution

Edit: Added more comments.

Shiner_Man · Post by **Shiner_Man** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 4:05 am

Right on man!

Is there a list of what Mod goes to what key? I can't seem to find one.

pianosaurus · Post by **pianosaurus** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:18 pm

All I know is that Mod1 is alt and Mod4 is tux/win. I don't know if there are any others at all. I do know that it's possible to somehow set up your own mod keys in fluxbox. Saw it somewhere here on the forum. Try searching if you're interested.

Anardil · Post by **Anardil** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 2:56 pm

Does ne1 know what Mod the menu-key on common Windows-keyboards is?

broken_chaos · Post by **broken_chaos** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:41 pm

Anardil wrote:Does ne1 know what Mod the menu-key on common Windows-keyboards is?

Menu key is not a Mod key. It's "Menu" in the Fluxbox key configurations (and is used in Cuber's keys file, too).

Used in his file here:

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# Fluxbox menus:
none Menu :RootMenu                        # Main menu
Mod4 Menu :WindowMenu                      # Window menu
Mod1 Menu :WorkspaceMenu                   # Workspace menu

Anardil · Post by **Anardil** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 1:04 pm

Menu key is not a Mod key. It's "Menu" in the Fluxbox key configurations (and is used in Cuber's keys file, too).

I know that this is a built in function of fluxbox but what i meant was the physical context menu key on common
Win95-keyboards.

There is the win/mac-key on the one hand and on most keyboards the menu-key, which pops up context-menus in Windows.

The win/mac-key is Mod4. Now i'd like to know what mod-ifier the "Menu-Key" is, which would be quit handy to open the
fluxbox-menu by binding it to the fluxbox-builtin-function RootMenu

pianosaurus · Post by **pianosaurus** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:27 pm

Anardil wrote:The win/mac-key is Mod4. Now i'd like to know what mod-ifier the "Menu-Key" is, which would be quit handy to open the
fluxbox-menu by binding it to the fluxbox-builtin-function RootMenu

That's exactly what I have done. The menu-key's name is "Menu" and is not a modifier like the win/mac-key is, just like broken_chaos said. Notice in the code he quoted that the key named Menu is bound to the RootMenu command (with no modifier).

Anardil · Post by **Anardil** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:17 pm

sry for the inconvenience

Obviously didn't realy read sry gys

pianosaurus · Post by **pianosaurus** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:34 pm

Hehe, no problem. Could happen to anyone.

Dan Forever · Post by **Dan Forever** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:20 am

A While ago I tried binding Mod4 F4 to close, to get a similar functionality to windows "alt-f4" but it didn't seem to work. However, with this binding in place, simply pressing F4 on it's own would close a window

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Mod4 F4 :Close

pianosaurus · Post by **pianosaurus** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 2:10 pm

Dan Forever wrote:A While ago I tried binding Mod4 F4 to close, to get a similar functionality to windows "alt-f4" but it didn't seem to work. However, with this binding in place, simply pressing F4 on it's own would close a window
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Mod4 F4 :Close

Hmm. Both Mod4 F4 and Mod1 F4 works just fine here. I'm having a little trouble getting gentoo onto my new computer with NForce 430, so I'm in windows right now, but if I remember correctly you can set the windows key to be an ordinary key instead of a meta key with modmap-settings. Maybe that's what's wrong with your setup?

YukataNinja · Post by **YukataNinja** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:48 am

cool, thanks. I also like tabs so I find this helpful:

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Mod4 Tab :NextTab
Mod4 Shift Tab :PrevTab