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[Moderator caprea]

Hi Fernando,

you can drag and drop with the mouse every application in

/usr/share/applications

to the desktop.

Edit: I overlooked the headline, you are looking for keyboard shortcuts

Open control-centre
Under SURFACE you find the settings for icewm, jwm and fluxbox
I assume you are using icewm, because it’s the default on antiX.
So click on icewm settings
This will open geany with 6 tabs open
Go to the file called “keys”
Here you can set your shortcuts.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by caprea.

[Moderator BobC]

If anyone wants me to add any of there others to my poll, let me know and I will. Even if none of this gets integrated, it still helps us customizer types choose well…

skidoo, yes, I tried posting pics of what the search/launcher screens look like, but maybe your link idea is better.

male, Yes, I see you like your keyboard map readily visible on the conky, which I also personally appreciate, but we are in the minority on that. What would be neat on a setup like that would be to have a “hotspot” on the screen, much like a menu that hides itself, except its the keyboard shortcuts list that popup as the tool tip when you hover over the hotspot.

BTW, in the Buster version of IceWM, all the keyboard mapping functions are easily displayed, changed, and added to right from the menu. That’s another step in a user friendly direction as I see it. I think its safe to expect that the really advanced users are always going to customize things to taste, probably no matter what is the default, but the better the starting point, the easier their customizing as I see it.

The normal people don’t generally have that kind of ability though, and maybe the power users would appreciate a bit better interface where easily integrated. Dmenu is already installed and as I said, its on the Fluxbox keymap, but I agree its pretty much for advanced users and not going to help normal people much. The xfce4-appfinder would be great for normal users and those advanced users who don’t see or remember so well, like me. Both xfce4-appfinder and dmenu integrated into the antiX IceWM setup perfectly with nothing more than a one line entry in keys to map the hotkey, and everything else worked with zero additional effort or changes. For me, that’s a lot quicker/easier than trying to remember what menu something is on and getting to it if it happens to be deep in the menu structure.

Hello all.

I’ve been using AntiX for music production for about 3 month now. Recently I installed the version 17.3.1. Initially I couldn’t edit the personal menu at Fluxbox with the menu editor. Posted a thread at LinuxQuestions.org (https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/antix-mx-linux-127/personal-menu-doesnt-change-4175648986/). Then I tried to change the keyboard shortcuts but just the default ones works. I think there are something wrong with the update of these configurations, since I can edit the theme and the behavior of the taskbar.

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.

[Anonymous]

If you google “antixforum” icewm keyboard shortcuts 2019 no posts from antixforum come up

just letting you know I get the same result here (well search found ONE result) and this isn’t a buster system.

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

For forum search. I just use the search button in the r/h pabel on this forum site.

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/search/keyboard+shortcuts/

Google search control in Debian Buster? Out of my pay grade skill set.

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[Forum Admin rokytnji]

For forum search. I just use the search button in the r/h pabel on this forum site.

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/search/keyboard+shortcuts/

Google search control in Debian Buster? Out of my pay grade skill set.

Sometimes I drive a crooked road to get my mind straight.
Not all who Wander are Lost.
I'm not outa place. I'm from outer space.

Linux Registered User # 475019
How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problems

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

For forum search. I just use the search button in the r/h pabel on this forum site.

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/search/keyboard+shortcuts/

Google search control in Debian Buster? Out of my pay grade skill set.

Sometimes I drive a crooked road to get my mind straight.
Not all who Wander are Lost.
I'm not outa place. I'm from outer space.

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How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problems

[Moderator BobC]

I installed the Debian Buster XFCE flavor from late January, added IceWM to it, and changed the session manager to it, and it works. I will try configuring it to have all the keys and features I like and then port that to antiX Buster. It comes with options to control the preferences, but not the keys file.

One odd thing on the Debian Buster machine… If you google “antixforum” icewm keyboard shortcuts 2019 no posts from antixforum come up…

• This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by BobC.

[Moderator BobC]

I had the impression Hierax_ca is trying to work it without using the mouse, but I could be wrong.

IceWM has a built in Cascade option, but I prefer 4 quadrants and maybe a center zoom window. Many of my windows are full screen unless I am copying and pasting from one to another, in which case I use the WinGrid to move them to quadrants, and most of the time I use the trackpad mouse if I can. If I get too many windows going and really need them, reorganize the desktop by moving some to different workspaces based on which I will use together.

One thing that could be done, but not easily would be to calculate what window already exists in the area you want to move the window to, and swap that window for the active one. It might work for quadrants, but if the windows were not quadrant sized, it would get tricky to code because that is going to happen.

I wrote 2 WinGrid-like functions for this to replace builtin IceWM functions that only allowed a single key mapping because they were in preferences not keys, and the Center-Zoom which is something new/different that I had written as a Brief macro for my PC in the late 80’s under DOS before windows came along.

The new IceWM comes with much nicer keyboard mapping, so maybe the default keyboard shortcuts help will no longer be needed. That would save needing to create, store and display files in other languages.

Hierax_ca, if you can sell us on the concept of what you were asking for in #6 in terms of what will it do to make the desktop better for people, and any example of something like it that already exists, or if not, then maybe a video with voice or text explanation of you doing manually what you are asking for the program to do automatically for you…

I found this for XFCE. I downloaded the code and will see what it does.

# winfuncs.sh – Tile, Cascade, Expose’ Windows, etc
# https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=6841
# 2012-02-24 22:00:28
# by caibbor
# I created this bash scripts to make up for some features I wished XFCE had. these scripts should theoretically work with several window/desktop managers. the only requirements for these is wmctrl, xwininfo and xdotool.
# update: I’ve merged the two scripts and they should run a tad faster.
# I’m still looking for a way to re-maximize windows after the “window select” function.
# I’m also still looking for a way to determine what windows are non-resizable by the user so that the script doesn’t resize them, either (currently, it does)

# usage

# ./winfuncs.sh select # arrange windows in a tiled manner, click on one to have it brought forward, all windows return to previous positions/sizes (suggested xbindkeys combo: Mod4 + Tab)

# ./winfuncs.sh tile # tile all windows on screen (suggested xbindkeys combo: Mod4 + t)

# ./winfuncs.sh tiletwo # after running this, click two windows. they will tile side-by-side. (suggested xbindkeys combo: Mod4 + c:23) (c:23 is the ‘2’ key)

# ./winfuncs.sh cascade

# ./winfuncs.sh showdesktop

• This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by BobC.

I have a fresh antiX frugal install up and running that mirrors much of the basic configuration of my MX install and it all went mostly smoothly. I still have small differences in the way zsh handles the keyboard in antiX but that is a minor inconvenience. I have adapted the iceWM menu and defined my keyboard shortcuts, that’s all fine and dandy. And the apps I’ve installed (not many so far) do work as they do under MX.

There’s one thing though that I just can’t get to work and that is my iptables setup. This works flawlessly in MX but it simply won’t load in antiX. The offending lines are these:

-A INPUT -m conntrack –ctstate RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -m conntrack –ctstate ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

The error for both is “iptables: Protocol wrong type for socket.”

I have googled left and right but none of the solutions I found worked (and some were above my head, I’m afraid). Has anyone got an idea why this works under MX but refuses to load under antiX? (MX has iptables 1.6.1, antiX has 1.6.0 but I do not think that is an issue here.)

[Moderator BobC]

Only got a few minutes free,

I uncommented the commented out ones just to try them, I wasn’t saying that I’d necessarily use them myself, just testing them to go through all of the entries in the file.
Good, I sorta thought that. I was trying to test what antiX would ship, but in the last test I added a couple of things that I always add just to be sure they would work too.

The only things I’m really looking for out of IceWM Keyboard Shortcuts is, Window Management stuff (besides the already working fine application launching the “keys” syntax seems workable):

1) to do the Wingrid
on both keyboard numbers and Numeric KeyPad
(= both working!)
I will need to change which number is which to match the setups for fluxbox and jwm

1a) when I get time I’d like to take a look at the center Wingrid thing and customize it to a specific window size (e.g., with the antiX conky on the right side of the screen and I put a Tilda terminal below it, to have the rest of the screen to the left the size of the custom center window)
I think you should just startup your normal desktop somehow with everything where you want, if possible. I bet there is a way

2) Change Workspace focused on
on both keyboard numbers and Numeric KeyPad
(= only 1 of 2 working)
If you are telling me something that should work doesn’t work, if you could be specific, maybe I could fix it

3) move application window to specific workspace
on both keyboard numbers and Numeric KeyPad
(= only 1 of 2 working)
If you are telling me something that should work doesn’t work, if you could be specific, maybe I could fix it

4) Move application windows
on both keyboard numbers and Numeric KeyPad
(= not yet working)
If you are telling me something that should work doesn’t work, if you could be specific, maybe I could fix it

5) Resize application windows
on both keyboard numbers and Numeric KeyPad
(= not yet working)
If you are telling me something that should work doesn’t work, if you could be specific, maybe I could fix it

6) (if possible) rotate the application windows through the tiled wingrid locations like I’ve seen people do with Tiling Window managers.
I do this now with my “rose” of numeric keys holding down Ctrl-Alt and pressing my way around till i like where the window is. I can always move it by hand if I want.

That’s about what I’m looking for out of the Keyboard Shortcuts. I see you’ve done a bunch of other detailed posts with other options, don’t have time to look at them right now but generally when I’m not sure what the syntax for a key is I use the MX XFCE shortcuts that I set by choosing the command then selecting the keys, then looking at what the code is for the keys (used that to decipher the custom keys for the Thinkpad A31p to translate it to antiX IceWM, xf86 or somesuch).
The XF86 keys are usually function keys with either icon pics or text in orange or blue on the keys. They are usually keys in the function key row or maybe above it. I am proposing to just map them sensibly, if they don’t already just work.

Anyway, Thanks for your great work delving into the depths of this, sorry I haven’t been able to be more helpful.[/quote]
I don’t want to spend many hours on things I won’t use, but if I see neat ideas, I don’t mind spending some time to make things efficient and a pleasure to use.

[Member Hierax_ca]

Only got a few minutes free,

I uncommented the commented out ones just to try them, I wasn’t saying that I’d necessarily use them myself, just testing them to go through all of the entries in the file.

The only things I’m really looking for out of IceWM Keyboard Shortcuts is, Window Management stuff (besides the already working fine application launching the “keys” syntax seems workable):

1) to do the Wingrid
on both keyboard numbers and Numeric KeyPad
(= both working!)

1a) when I get time I’d like to take a look at the center Wingrid thing and customize it to a specific window size (e.g., with the antiX conky on the right side of the screen and I put a Tilda terminal below it, to have the rest of the screen to the left the size of the custom center window)

2) Change Workspace focused on
on both keyboard numbers and Numeric KeyPad
(= only 1 of 2 working)

3) move application window to specific workspace
on both keyboard numbers and Numeric KeyPad
(= only 1 of 2 working)

4) Move application windows
on both keyboard numbers and Numeric KeyPad
(= not yet working)

5) Resize application windows
on both keyboard numbers and Numeric KeyPad
(= not yet working)

6) (if possible) rotate the application windows through the tiled wingrid locations like I’ve seen people do with Tiling Window managers.

That’s about what I’m looking for out of the Keyboard Shortcuts. I see you’ve done a bunch of other detailed posts with other options, don’t have time to look at them right now but generally when I’m not sure what the syntax for a key is I use the MX XFCE shortcuts that I set by choosing the command then selecting the keys, then looking at what the code is for the keys (used that to decipher the custom keys for the Thinkpad A31p to translate it to antiX IceWM, xf86 or somesuch).

Anyway, Thanks for your great work delving into the depths of this, sorry I haven’t been able to be more helpful.

AntiX 17.x:
- (32-bit): IBM Thinkpad 600X (2000), IBM NetVista X41 (2002), IBM Thinkpad A31p (2003);
- (64-bit): Lenovo Thinkpads x61s (2008), x200 (2009), x301 (2009).

[Moderator BobC]

Hierax_ca,

I noticed that some of the keys you expected to be working when you tested were commented out.

Could you make a list of the commented out ones that you wish did work? It would make sense that if the Devs once assigned that key, and all of us agree that function on that key would be useful, maybe we should consider turning it on by default (maybe we could find out why they were commented out) rather than leave it commented out…

I did more testing with my different desktop, multimedia and laptop keyboards and found that:

1. The WiFi, brightness and sleep keys work without mapping.
2. The WWW (HomePage), Search, Email, Player keys (Rewind to beginning, Pause/Play, Skip Forward), Help, Control_L Lock, Display, Print, Pause and Screensaver Lock all could be mapped by name, if we knew what to map them to.
3. I wish the Print Screen key would work the same on all OS’s, LOL.

Finally, Once we end up with a key mapping that works and everyone likes, then I will redo my IceWM Default Keyboard Shortcuts help file to include all the keys we map by default.

[Moderator BobC]

I replied to each of your comments:

works on mine, try with external keypad – Ctrl+Alt+Keypad w/Numlock off + a number: for Move/Resize

no surprise, i see no point in it, it would only work if you had icons on the desktop that needed rearranged – Ctrl+Shift+i: Arrange Icons doesn’t appear to do anything

this directory doesn’t exist on testing, so no desktop-defaults-run programs will work – /usr/share/desktop-defaults
– 3 Ctrl+Shift+ … : Root something
– Ctrl+Shift+f: Root FM
– Ctrl+Shift+p: Root Htop (why would this even be needed?)
– Ctrl+Shift+t: Root Terminal

works on mine, try with external keypad, if not, maybe we could try programming to multimedia keys – Volume Control
– Ctrl+Alt+NumLock: Mute
– Ctrl+Alt+/: Volume Up
– Ctrl+Alt+*: Volume Down

i added autokey and launchy to my system, try google to see what they do, or install from repos and try on a test system, they would be a nice addition – Customs Keys (maybe don’t work for me because I don’t have whatever these are)
– Ctrl+Alt+k: Autokey Keyboard Macros
– Ctrl+Space: Launchy Quick Search

i tried it and if you define the same function to 2 different keys in preferences, only the last one works – maybe you could find a wingrid like way to make it do this? – I wish that the KeySysWorkspace(number)TakeWin commands in the .icewm preferences file could be doubled-up to match like the WinGrid ones to work on both the Numeric KeyPad as well as the regular number keys but it seems they can only have one shortcut per command while with the .icewm keys file two different shortcuts can apply to the same command. Must be some kind of programming thing.

[Member Hierax_ca]

Sorry for the delay (real life stuff).

I agree, the WinGrid keys are more useful. Cascade and Arrange don’t seem useful to me but probably just how I use it, could be useful for someone who works differently. But the Horizontal and Vertical are useful if one only has 2 or 3 windows open.

Few things not working for me (antiX 17.3.1 32-bit, Debian Testing/Buster repos, IceWM 1.4.3.0~pre-20181030):

– Ctrl+Alt+Keypad w/Numlock off + a number: for Move/Resize

– Ctrl+Shift+i: Arrange Icons doesn’t appear to do anything

– 3 Ctrl+Shift+ … : Root something
– Ctrl+Shift+f: Root FM
– Ctrl+Shift+p: Root Htop (why would this even be needed?)
– Ctrl+Shift+t: Root Terminal

– Volume Control
– Ctrl+Alt+NumLock: Mute
– Ctrl+Alt+/: Volume Up
– Ctrl+Alt+*: Volume Down

– Customs Keys (maybe don’t work for me because I don’t have whatever these are)
– Ctrl+Alt+k: Autokey Keyboard Macros
– Ctrl+Space: Launchy Quick Search

I wish that the KeySysWorkspace(number)TakeWin commands in the .icewm preferences file could be doubled-up to match like the WinGrid ones to work on both the Numeric KeyPad as well as the regular number keys but it seems they can only have one shortcut per command while with the .icewm keys file two different shortcuts can apply to the same command. Must be some kind of programming thing.

AntiX 17.x:
- (32-bit): IBM Thinkpad 600X (2000), IBM NetVista X41 (2002), IBM Thinkpad A31p (2003);
- (64-bit): Lenovo Thinkpads x61s (2008), x200 (2009), x301 (2009).