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Bug 91538 - Multiple keybindings for the same function
Multiple keybindings for the same function
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 164831
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: future
Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
: 92349 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 155457
 
 
Reported: 2002-08-23 17:06 UTC by JeyaSudha
Modified: 2006-04-01 19:19 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description JeyaSudha 2002-08-23 17:06:01 UTC 
If i want to bind more than one key to single functionality i don't have
any option currently. For example, to minimize a window, the default
keybinding is <Alt>F9. In Sun solaris keyboard there is a separate key OPEN
which does the same function. If metacity could provide support to add both
keys OPEN and <Alt>F9 to minimize functionality then it would be really
useful.
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-08-23 18:21:27 UTC 
This is a lot of work, but probably OK in principle.
Comment 2 Shane O'Connor 2002-10-01 13:30:37 UTC 
can we assume that this won't happen in the near future seeing as its
marked as an enhancement and there are loads of other bugs to fix?
Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2002-10-01 14:15:18 UTC 
It's not at the top of my priority queue, but if someone else wanted
to do it soon that would be fine with me. The hard bit is figuring out
how to do it, while retaining the ability to share a gconf database with 
older versions of metacity.
Comment 4 Havoc Pennington 2003-02-25 09:08:06 UTC 
*** Bug 92349 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Rob Adams 2003-02-28 20:18:42 UTC 
the database format wouldn't be too hard -- just support a delimited
list of keybindings in the gconf key.  A single binding would be the
same as a one-element list and would look just like the current
format.  So you could have "<Ctrl>F12|<Alt>F12" under the do_foo key,
allowing you to use either <Ctrl>F12 or <Alt>F12 to do foo.

We should presumably also allow people to bind mouse clicks to actions
as well if we do something like this.
Comment 6 Marius Gedminas 2005-09-09 22:14:58 UTC 
This looks like a duplicate of bug 108689.  Bug 164831 has a patch for a subset
of this feature (multiple keybindings for just some of the actions).
Comment 7 Thomas Thurman 2006-04-01 19:19:32 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 164831 ***