More than one shortcut per Window Manager action?

discodave · 2016-08-15 23:56:09

Hello there,
I've been playing around with the keyboard shortcuts that under Window Manager of the xfce4-settings-manager. I was wondering if it was possible to have more than one keyboard shortcut per action?

Thanks in advanced!
Disco

alcornoqui · 2016-09-10 00:45:28

Thanks for your question, I just tried and it is possible, you have to use xfce4-settings-editor.

Look for the value you want to clone: In your case it's under xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts > xfwm4 > custom (or default).

In my test I used the default property "/xfwm4/default/<Alt>space", which has the value "popup_menu_key" (which is a string); then created a new property "<Super>m" (actually "/xfwm4/custom/<Super>m") with that same value ("popup_menu_key"). Now both shortcuts work!

Your newly created property will be in xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts > xfwm4 > custom.

I know that you can do this using the command line and xfconf-query, and maybe there's a better way, but I hope this helps...

poleguy · 2020-01-07 16:12:09

I just tried this with tile_left_key and I can't get it to accept two keys. I'm using xfce 4.12. Does this trick not work any more?

poleguy · 2022-10-12 18:47:02

I just tried again on xfce 4.16 and the solution by alcornoqui seemed to work fine, but then I realized that although the key was created, only one of the two hot-keys actually did anything. Does anyone have a work around?

My question on stack exchange links here too:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … 839#560839

Last edited by poleguy (2022-10-12 18:52:51)

ToZ · 2022-10-13 02:20:31

You can use xdotool for the second shortcut to emit the first shortcut combination. For example:

set ctrl+alt+right to the swtich to right workspace
In Settings Manager > Keyboard > Application Shortcuts, create a new shortcut to the command;
```
xdotool key Ctrl+Alt+Right
```
...and assign it the Ctrl+Alt+Page_Up shortcut.

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More than one shortcut per Window Manager action?

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