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advice1010

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Registered: 2023-02-19

Posts: 121

Was ability to use super key to open panel menu added

I apologize because I could have sworn I remember it being mentioned that in newer versions of XFCE, due to Wayland, that being able to use your "super" key to toggle your panel menu (such as Whisker) open and closed, but also still being able to use the "super" key as a modifier key as well.
Which would replace applications such as "xfce-superkey" from being needed/required to do so.
I am currently using XFCE 4.20 but realized that I do not remember seeing this anywhere that it is added.
I still require the use of "xfce-superkey" to achieve this behavior.

Does anyone know if this was added in 4.20 or if I was mistaken about reading about this.

Thank You

There are a few applications to achieve various minor things like this, that I wish would just be added directly into the XFCE ecosystem.
I know these applications already exist so why do so, but just would be nice if made specifically for XFCE, by XFCE developers.

kwizzz

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Registered: 2024-11-10

Posts: 28

Re: Was ability to use super key to open panel menu added

I apologize because I could have sworn I remember it being mentioned that in newer versions of XFCE, due to Wayland, that being able to use your "super" key to toggle your panel menu (such as Whisker) open and closed, but also still being able to use the "super" key as a modifier key as well.
Which would replace applications such as "xfce-superkey" from being needed/required to do so.
I am currently using XFCE 4.20 but realized that I do not remember seeing this anywhere that it is added.
I still require the use of "xfce-superkey" to achieve this behavior.

Does anyone know if this was added in 4.20 or if I was mistaken about reading about this.

The quick and easy answer: super key's strange behavior has been fixed with Xfce 4.20...
...at least for me on openSUSE Leap 15.6 (and X).

The more complicated one: the issue was in one of Xfce4's components.  I did some research and it looks like the component is libxfce4ui.  Here's the bug report:
https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4ui/-/issues/1

Apparently, they fixed it with libxfce4ui 4.18.5, but on openSUSE, this lib got upgraded from 4.18.<something pre-5> to 4.20 with the upgrade to Xfce 4.20.

You might want to check out your versions of libxfce4ui.  I also disabled the whole `xcape` workaround chain to restore normal super key behavior (with xcape I changed super key to Alt-F1 and used Alt-F1 for whisker)