Super-Shift-m is not working about awesome-wm-config HOT 5 CLOSED

Thanks for the updates!

Keyboard layout setting should be an obvious point for investigation in hindsight. Glad you figure it out :)

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Hi @mhdna,

I cannot repro this on my systems. Did you customize the config and accidentally override the key bindings?

Wei

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Hi again,

Thanks for your quick response.

I've actually tried them out on your original configs, and they didn't work as well. However, when I copied that same functions and keybindings to a another minimal config of mine, they did work!

Probably it has to do with the version of Awesome you're using (I'm on version 4.3), or patches you're applying to it.

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I have been using this w/ vanilla awesome packages on Arch Linux (at home) and Debian (at work), both having awesome v4.3.

Are you sure you are on the awesome-4.x or local-1pengw-4.x branch, not the obsolete awesome-3.x?

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So you got me looking around.

I did a checkout to ensure that I'm on the latest awesome-4.x branch, and I definitely was (BTW, if I for whatever reason did use awesome-3.x, Awesome won't function properly).

I thought my keyboard layout setup might be the issue, and it was.
You can reproduce the issue now if you execute setxkbmap -layout us,ara

I haven't encountered something like this with any other window manager (this is arguably a bug in Awesome itself?).

So, I started commenting-out other keybindings in the rc.lua file, chunk by chunk, until I figured out that strangely enough, changing these two keybindings can fix the problem

awful.key({ modkey, }, "'", customization.func.clients_on_tag),    
---> to fix Super-m
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "'", customization.func.all_clients),    
---> to fix Super-Shift-m

Eventually, I remapped them to s-\\ and s-S-\\, and now s-m and s-S-m are working just fine.

Thank you for your time.

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