compizshortcut-keys
Other than looking though each active plugin and manually searching for keybindings / keyboard-shortcuts in use by compiz, is there a 'simple' way to gather this information?
i.e. Some panel that displays all currently active keybindings in use (by compiz), or some terminal command to do same.
Keyboard-shortcuts does not appear to list certain specific compiz shortcuts.
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This person found a way to do what you are looking for: http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~gwiener/linux/minimizing-all-windows-in-gnome/
First install devilspie
sudo apt-get install devilspie
Then create a file called minimize.ds in your home folder. In that file put the following:
(begin
(minimize)
(quit))
Test it out by running: devilspie minimize.ds
If it works as it should then add a shortcut: System ➜ Preferences ➜ Keyboard Shortcuts.
Click on the Add button and fill in the fields as shown below, replacing YOURUSERNAME with your actual username.
And finally double-click where it says Disabled and press your shortcut keys.
Your window manager gets the any key events before applications do, so if it wants to consume those events, it does so and your applications will never receive them. If the window manager does not want to react to the key events itself, it passes them along to the application.
You can verify this by yourself in the following way:
xev | grep KeyPress, the X event viewer.Alt, note that xev shows that it got the key event in its terminal window.Ctrl, again note that xev got the event. Take note of what the terminal window looks like right now.Left arrow to go to another workspace. (I'm assuming you have that as a window manager shortcut key.)Right arrow to go back to where you are running xev. Note that it never received any key events for you switching workspaces via left and right arrow keys -- the output is the same as it was in Step 4.So you see that the window manager in practice gets all key events and if it does not want to capture them, it passes them along to the application. The application then gets to do the same for its own widgets (like how you can press Enter all day long in your web browser but it won't do anything until you put the cursor in the address bar or some field where you can enter text).
It is up to the application to set its own shortcuts, and applications are configured independently of each other.
In KDE 3.x, if I recall correctly, you could set the default shortcuts (e.g. Ctrl-s for save) in the KDE Control Center and it would apply to all applications written with the Qt toolkit, but I don't know if that's still possible since their switch to KDE 4.
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Here's a (very long) one-liner that returns all shortcuts from all active plugins:
Update:
Above version now gets all non-empty/disabled keybindings (key, mouse, key+mouse) from all active plugins.
However, the value of the key X-GNOME-WMSettingsModule in /usr/share/applications/compiz.desktop makes Metacity override several Compiz keys. You will notice the italic labels in
ccsm- that's when the value comes from Metacity and not Compiz.As I found no easy way to fix this, I simply added all Metacity shortcuts to the end of the output.