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kwizzz

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Registered: 2024-11-10

Posts: 9

Better keyboard navigation for xfce4-popup-windowmenu?

I love keyboard shortcuts, so I added Super+W to execute `xfce4-popup-windowmenu -p`.  This brings up the window menu which can be either navigated by mouse our by cursor keys.
What I am looking for is to have some 'better' means.

Like being able to type the first letter of an entry to jump to it (and repeatedly type it to jump to the other entries starting with that letter).
Or being able to use other key bindings for cursor up and down (Win+j or Win+k -- vi, anyone? ;-)

I guess, this would require a change request in xfce4-panel's GitLab bug tracker, right?

But for simply sending cursor up and down, I thought that xdotool would help here.
So I created two keyboard shortcuts
Win+k -> xdotool key Up
Win+j -> xdotool key Down

But these shortcuts don't work anywhere.  The up and down events are not sent (neither in terminal, nor in list of keyboard application shortcuts, nor in the window list).

What am I doing wrong here?  Maybe there is a better/different approach?