Keybindings for virtual desktops

Configuration Decorations and bindings
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I’m slowly learning fvwm by having used a pre-edited fvwmrc and changing things in it and seeing the results. But I haven’t been able to find anything on how to assign keybindings for changing desktops. Right now I can only change desktops by clicking on the fvwm pager, or moving the pointer to the appropriate edge of the desktop. How is this done. I found the part of fvwmrc that deals with keybindings, but apparently none of the keybindings in this setup are for changing to another virtual desktop. Can someone help me?

2

See the “GotoDesk” command in the fvwm manual page, this will move the viewport to a desktop.

See the “Scroll” command to move to pages within a desktop.

Wayne

3

Here some examples from my config:

[code]#-----------------------------------------------------------------------

press SHIFT-ALT arrow anywhere, move active

window to next/previous page

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Key Left A SM FuncMoveWindowToPage -1p +0p
Key Right A SM FuncMoveWindowToPage +1p +0p
Key Up A SM FuncMoveWindowToPage +0p -1p
Key Down A SM FuncMoveWindowToPage +0p +1p

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------

key 1-4 move current window to page n

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Key 1 A SM Current FuncMoveWindowToPage 0 0
Key 2 A SM Current FuncMoveWindowToPage 1 0
Key 3 A SM Current FuncMoveWindowToPage 0 1
Key 4 A SM Current FuncMoveWindowToPage 1 1

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Go to page n with SHIFT-CTRL + number

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Key 1 A SC FuncGotoPage 0 0
Key 2 A SC FuncGotoPage 1 0
Key 3 A SC FuncGotoPage 0 1
Key 4 A SC FuncGotoPage 1 1

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------

press SHIFT-CTRL arrow anywhere, and scroll by one page

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Key Left A SC FuncGotoPage -1p +0p
Key Right A SC FuncGotoPage +1p +0p
Key Up A SC FuncGotoPage +0p -1p
Key Down A SC FuncGotoPage +0p +1p[/code]
And here the functions:

[code]#-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Move active window to next/previous page

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
DestroyFunc FuncMoveWindowToPage
AddToFunc FuncMoveWindowToPage

  • I MoveToPage $0 $1
  • I GotoPage $0 $1

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------

GotoPage and set focus to window which is in the foreground

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
DestroyFunc FuncGotoPage
AddToFunc FuncGotoPage

  • I GotoPage $0 $1
  • I Next (CurrentPage, !Iconic, !Sticky, !Shaded, !Focused, !Overlapped) FuncSelectWindow

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------

This function selects a window, give it the focus and raise it

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
DestroyFunc FuncSelectWindow
AddToFunc FuncSelectWindow

  • I Iconify off
  • I Focus
  • I Raise[/code]

Hope this helps 8)

  • Thomas -