[xmonad] Not passing Mod key to applications
wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu
wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu
Mon Feb 27 21:43:24 CET 2012
Quoting John Goerzen <jgoerzen at complete.org>:
> I'd rather have xmonad completely eat all Mod keypresses, and let no
> other application, even those Windows RDP or VirtualBox sessions,
> ever see it. I don't really ever use it in Windows anyhow, so it's
> just causing annoyance.
>
> Is there a quick trick to accomplish this?
Thanks for asking, because it prompted me to finally solve this
long-standing annoyance in my own installation. =)
I now have the following line in my keybindings:
((0, xK_Super_L), return ()) -- make VirtualBox ignore stray hits of
the Windows key when xmonad has the active grab
~d
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