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Here's what I did back when I used XFCE a couple of years ago: The xfce whiskermenu plugin includes a text search feature that looks similar to the one from Wi
by ufo 4y ago
Here's what I did back when I used XFCE a couple of years ago:
The xfce whiskermenu plugin includes a text search feature that looks similar to the one from Windows. On Xubuntu the whiskermenu is the default "start menu" while in some other distros you may need to add it in the panel settings. Finally, in the keyboard shortcuts bind Super to the xfce4-popup-whiskermenu command, to bring up whisker menu for a text search.
- KronisLV 4y ago> Finally, in the keyboard shortcuts bind Super to the xfce4-popup-whiskermenu command, to bring up whisker menu for a text search. I've had this trigger the popup menu when there is another shortcut that binds the Super key in combination with something else. Say, if I had something under Super+R, then the menu would also open. Though maybe this has been patched out in the newer versions, I remember that issue being the case in an XFCE desktop from 2020. But other than that, this is indeed a really nice and usable setup!
- andai 4y agoSame, so I rebound whiskermenu to Meta+Space.
- iza 4y agoI worked around this issue using xcape to map my Super key to another key combo: xcape -e "Super_L=Alt_L|F1" Then set the keyboard shortcut for xfce4-popup-whiskermenu to the new combo (Alt+F1 in this case). This allows other Super shortcuts to work without triggering whiskermenu.
- raisin_churn 4y agoksuperkey[0] addresses this, though it is unfortunately not widely packaged so you likely have to compile it. I haven't used it in a while, but it worked well when last I did. [0] https://github.com/hanschen/ksuperkey https://github.com/hanschen/ksuperkey