[xmonad] New User Impressions

Khudyakov Alexey alexey.skladnoy at gmail.com
Thu Jan 29 16:43:48 EST 2009


> 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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