Hi, A problem which regularly pops up again and again is the fact that many shortcuts are defined in XFCE, which interfere with applications. Just a couple of examples: - The eclipse plugin spy shortcut Shift-Alt-F1 is masked by the Alt-F1 keybinding to the app finder (See mail from Tom Hodder) - Alt-Tab for Midnight commander is shadowed too (mine) - as is F10 to exit MC and other apps. Each time I install XFCE on a machine I have reconfigure these. Is there really no way to find a solution to this? I tend to think that the shortcuts of an active, focused application should override global shortcuts.
(In reply to comment #0) > - The eclipse plugin spy shortcut Shift-Alt-F1 is masked by the Alt-F1 > keybinding to the app finder (See mail from Tom Hodder) Delete/change it in the keyboard shortcuts. http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/keyboard > - Alt-Tab for Midnight commander is shadowed too (mine) You can change the Alt-Tab shortcut to something else within xfw4-settings. http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/preferences#keyboard > - as is F10 to exit MC and other apps. with xfce4-terminal for example you can disable F10. http://docs.xfce.org/apps/terminal/preferences#menubar_access > Each time I install XFCE on a machine I have reconfigure these. Yes. > Is there really no way to find a solution to this? I tend to think that > the shortcuts of an active, focused application should override > global shortcuts. No. Otherwise they are not global and work only in a specific application. Semi-global doesn't exist. On another note, you don't necessarily need to change the global keyboard shortcuts, you can change the menu accelerators of Eclipse for example (in case Eclipse does allow this). http://wiki.xfce.org/faq#how_do_i_enable_menu_accelerators Mike
(In reply to comment #1) > (In reply to comment #0) > On another note, you don't necessarily need to change the global keyboard > shortcuts, you can change the menu accelerators of Eclipse for example (in > case Eclipse does allow this). > http://wiki.xfce.org/faq#how_do_i_enable_menu_accelerators http://docs.xfce.org/FAQ