Re: [i3] interaction with lowlevel programs like synergy

From: Michael Stapelberg <michael@xxxxxxxx>
To: i3-discuss <i3-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:36:00 +0200

Hi Daniel,

Excerpts from Daniel Steen's message of 2012-03-29 21:49:48 +0200:

I've been a user of i3 for a few years now, and I absolutely love it! I
found i3 after ion2 went out of development, and after trying all the other
tiling window managers out there i3 was far and away the best. Great
work!

Thanks.

One thing I have noticed is that i3 has some quirks with how it handles
other low level programs that take keyboard input. Specifically synergy (
http://synergy2.sourceforge.net). My goal is to be able to have three
screens across two machines, where I run mail and calendaring on one
machine (mac), and everything else on the other (linux). I want to be
able to use the same modifier key to switch from one machine to the next as
I do to switch windows in i3. However, i3 doesn't seem to pass the
modifier on to synergy - even if the particular key combination is not
mapped by i3. So, as example, if I user "super" as my i3 modifier key,

If you did not map that key to i3, X11 won’t even send i3 an event. i3 is not
involved at all, then.

Is this inherant to the way things work, or is this adjustable?

Not sure. Have you tried to reproduce this problem in other window managers,
say twm or awesome? If it *only* happens in i3, feel free to file a ticket with
detailed steps on how to reproduce and a full debug level logfile (see
http://i3wm.org/docs/debugging.html).

Best regards,
Michael

Re: [i3] interaction with lowlevel programs like synergy

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