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shirish

Member

From: Pune, India

Registered: 2007-05-11

Posts: 2

How-to bind your 'windows' key to the Xfce menu

Hi all,
     Noob here as far as xfce is concerned. I saw the above thread http://forum.xfce.org/index.php?topic=2401.0 and this is the output of my xev

eyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001,
    root 0x4d, subw 0x0, time 10921005, (187,171), root:(674,524),
    state 0x0, keycode 115 (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001,
    root 0x4d, subw 0x0, time 10921189, (187,171), root:(674,524),
    state 0x40, keycode 115 (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False 

Version of xfce used 4.4.0

While both the commands work :-

xfdesktop -menu     <-- pops up the right-click menu
xfdesktop -windowlist    <-- pops up the middle-click window list

I'm unable to just click on the Window key to invoke the Application drop-down menu on the desktop

Cheers and keep up the good work.

Jellybean

Member

Registered: 2007-02-17

Posts: 43

Re: How-to bind your 'windows' key to the Xfce menu

Maybe xfce4-popup-menu is what you are looking for?

shirish

Member

From: Pune, India

Registered: 2007-05-11

Posts: 2

Re: How-to bind your 'windows' key to the Xfce menu

xfce4-popup-menu does bring the applications into focus but doesn't make my windows key do anything :-

xmodmap -e "keycode 115 = xfce4-popup-menu" &

results in :-

shirish@ubuntu ~> xmodmap:  commandline:1:  bad keysym name 'xfce4-popup-menu' in keysym list

while :-

xmodmap -e "keycode 115 = Menu" &

does make window key function like the right-click within the browser & stuff but doesn't do anything on the desktop