Whisker Menu and Super keys

Misko_2083 · 2017-11-21 22:10:14

A little help please. I want to run Whisker Menu plugin with Super_L and Super_R keys.
I removed the old Whisker Menu keyboard shortcut first.
That way it won't interfere with the sript. With this script below I monitor X keyboard input.
If one of the Super keys is pressed and released it will show or hide the Whisker Menu.
Now, if I press some key combo, like Super_L+F, It launches whatever command is set.
That's alright, but when I release the Super key, Whisker is being shown.
How do I filter out the key-combos so that Whisker doesn't launch?

#!/bin/bash

  xinput test-xi2 --root | perl -lne '
    BEGIN{$"=",";
      open X, "-|", "xmodmap -pke";
      while (<X>) {$k{$1}=$2 if /^keycode\s+(\d+) = (\w+)/}
      open X, "-|", "xmodmap -pm"; <X>;<X>;
      while (<X>) {if (/^(\w+)\s+(\w*)/){($k=$2)=~s/_[LR]$//;$m[$i++]=$k||$1}}
      close X;
    }
    if (/^EVENT type.*\((.*)\)/) {$e = $1}
    elsif (/detail: (\d+)/) {$d=$1}
    elsif (/modifiers:.*effective: (.*)/) {
      $m=$1;
      if ($e =~ /^Key/){
        my @mods;
        for (0..$#m) {push @mods, $m[$_] if (hex($m) & (1<<$_))}
          # Comment out next line to see what key is pressed
          # print "$e $d [$k{$d}] $m [@mods]";
          if (($k{$d} eq "Super_L" or $k{$d} eq "Super_R") && $e eq "KeyRelease"){
             system ("xfce4-popup-whiskermenu > /dev/null 2>&1");
          }
      }
   }'

ozjd · 2017-11-22 05:58:45

I use Ksuperkey to do that. Despite the name it isn't part of KDE. See https://github.com/hanschen/ksuperkey

marko · 2017-11-22 08:02:09

- Launch Settings->Hardware->Keyboard->Application Shortcuts and click the "Add" button
- Type: xfce4-popup-whiskermenu
- Press the Left Super key when prompted for a keyboard shortcut.
- Repeat the process for the Right Super Key

Here is another cool trick smile Open up a terminal and run this command: xfce4-popup-whiskermenu --pointer

smile Xfce4 rules!

Last edited by marko (2017-11-22 08:06:05)

k-3.14 · 2017-11-22 15:55:33

marko wrote:

- Launch Settings->Hardware->Keyboard->Application Shortcuts and click the "Add" button
- Type: xfce4-popup-whiskermenu
- Press the Left Super key when prompted for a keyboard shortcut.
- Repeat the process for the Right Super Key

Nice tip marko.

New for ARCH and DEBIAN, bit Linux Mint has LEFT SUPER key for that by default.

br

marko · 2017-11-23 10:04:10

No worries, what you can also do is, should you wish to use a dock instead of the panel (personally, I have to have the panel + a window button list, please keep this as an option), you can add a custom command to the dock and the command would be: xfce4-popup-whiskermenu --pointer and the menu would pop up right there where you click the button.

Last edited by marko (2017-11-23 10:04:44)

Misko_2083 · 2017-11-23 18:49:53

ozjd wrote:

I use Ksuperkey to do that. Despite the name it isn't part of KDE. See https://github.com/hanschen/ksuperkey

Thank you ozjd. That's one neat little tool. As long as it is running it does what is advertising.

marko wrote:

- Launch Settings->Hardware->Keyboard->Application Shortcuts and click the "Add" button
- Type: xfce4-popup-whiskermenu
- Press the Left Super key when prompted for a keyboard shortcut.
- Repeat the process for the Right Super Key
Here is another cool trick Open up a terminal and run this command: xfce4-popup-whiskermenu --pointer
Xfce4 rules!

I had some trouble with the Super_L key and overlaping with keyboard combo shortcuts on this 4.10 xfce.

djh · 2021-06-01 06:58:03

xfce4-popup-whiskermenu

Worked for me smile

Thanks

mouradbenhelli · 2025-03-09 21:38:16

Whisker menu in XFCE does not provide direct control over dimensions such as dragging to resize, dragging from the right, dragging from the left, dragging from the bottom to the top and vice versa to place it in the middle of the screen like kde. Frankly, it would be better if this feature was supported.

ToZ · 2025-03-09 23:05:15

mouradbenhelli wrote:

Whisker menu in XFCE does not provide direct control over dimensions such as dragging to resize, dragging from the right, dragging from the left, dragging from the bottom to the top and vice versa to place it in the middle of the screen like kde. Frankly, it would be better if this feature was supported.

What version are you using? Resizing was re-added in 2.9.0. To popup the menu in the centre of the screen, you can use the -c parameter:

xfce4-popup-whiskermenu -c

mouradbenhelli · 2025-03-09 23:11:03

True I was using version 2.8.3, now I have upgraded to version 2.9. It is good honestly

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