Use special keys? For example <Tab>

[ghost]

How can I use special keys like <Tab> in the patterns?
Also, will chords work?

[potamides]

Hi,
for special keys you have to find out which string the callback function gets for a key. For <Tab> this is is 'Tab', so if you want to use <Tab> for a command your pattern should look like {'Tab'}. On a side note, you could also use {'T', 'a', 'b'}, but then you could also press <Shift>t, then a and then b for a match.

What do you mean with chords?

[ghost]

Hi,
for special keys you have to find out which string the callback function gets for a key. For <Tab> this is is 'Tab', so if you want to use <Tab> for a command your pattern should look like {'Tab'}. On a side note, you could also use {'T', 'a', 'b'}, but then you could also press <Shift>t, then a and then b for a match.

Hi, thanks for replying quickly. This works.

What do you mean with chords?

Keys combinations like <C-a> and <Shift-Tab>.

[potamides]

Keys combinations like <C-a> and <Shift-Tab>.

Ah I see. Support for this is limited. You can map <Shift> in combinations with letters, e.g. <S-a>, because then the callback function is called with the uppercase letter 'A', so a pattern like {'A'} works, but that's it.
It would be possible however to support other modifiers, since the callback is also called with a table of pressed modifiers, which is currently ignored.

[ghost]

It would be possible however to support other modifiers, since the callback is also called with a table of pressed modifiers, which is currently ignored.

And how can I do it?

[potamides]

Since as of now this functionality does not exist in modalawesome, you'd have to implement it first. I'd do it like this:

1. add optional modifiers table to commands, which should contain required modifiers
2. in keygrabber callback pass the modifiers table to parser function
3. in parser function compare the modifier table of command with the one from the callback
4. if there's a match execute corresponding handler

I have some time at the end of the month were I can take a look at this. Until then, pull requests are welcome :)

[ghost]

Okay,
I am new to lua and awesomewm. I will give it a shot and let you know.

[potamides]

So I finally had some time to take a look at this. The feature is now functional, but I still want to think about it a little bit more, before I merge this. Feel free to check out the pull request in the mean time and tell me if it suits your needs :)

[ghost]

Thanks a lot. I have been busy, I will check out the PR and let you know.