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Re: windowmanager binding for emacs?
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tomas |
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Re: windowmanager binding for emacs? |
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Thu, 8 Sep 2016 09:52:52 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
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On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 10:12:55AM +0200, joakim@verona.se wrote:
> I would like to bind, for example, a window manager key such as super-x,
> to start a little emacs frame where I can then issue emacs commands.
>
> I tried by creating a custom gnome binding for super-x, but I got
> confused by the gnome gui, and at any rate I would like a method that
> works the same across xfce, lxde and gnome, if possible.
>
> Surely somebody has already achieved this. Does anyone have any
> pointers?
Over the years, bit by bit, I came up with a hack which suits me.
That said, a word of warning: I'm using (after a tour which took
me from twm up to Gnome and back to XFCE) Fvwm. Those "desktop"
environments are just too complex and heavy-handed for me. I can't
stand when software "knows" what's better for me and I have to
unravel an architecture which reminds of Hieronymus Bosch's worst
nightmares. Opinionated software? It's bad enough that people
have so much opinion :-)
That said, I mapped a pop-up Emacs (-client) X frame to the key
combo "left-windows key + space". This entailed:
- separating left and right "windows" keys (they are mapped
to the same modifier, I want to use them separately):
+-- /etc/X11/Xmodmap -----------------------------
| ! Xmodmap: global, machine-specific key mappings
|
| ! Right super (the "Windows" menu key) shall be a different modifier
| ! than the left super (mod3 vs. mod4):
| remove mod4 = Super_R
| add mod3 = Super_R
+-------------------------------------------------
- setting up my Fvwm config to invoke Emacs (wrapped up in a
small shell script, which I called `imp'). ISTR that I had
to massage things because my distribution thought it was a
good idea to configure Fvwm to stop reading the config in
my home dir. Sheesh:
+-- ~/.fvwm/config ---------------------------------
| ...
| ## Miscellaneous utilities
| # "the imp" -- an Emacs client window to take quick notes
| # (NOTE: make sure there's an appropriate "imp" in your $PATH)
| Key Space A 4 Exec exec imp
| Style "imp" Sticky, StaysOnTop, BorderWidth 0
| ...
+-------------------------------------------------
- Set up the imp. I have ~/bin in my $PATH:
+-- ~/.bin/imp -----------------------------------
| #!/bin/bash
| emacsclient -n -c -F '((name . "imp") (menu-bar-lines 0))' \
| -e '(switch-to-buffer "*imp*")'
+-------------------------------------------------
There are sure some bits missing, but as you see, it's a pretty
pedestrian setup which works pretty well (of course, I map more
hot keys to Super_R, typically window manager things -- the right
"window" key is reserved for Emacs things.
My environment is pretty exotic these days, I know, but perhaps
there's some idea in there you can steal.
regards
- -- t
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