7.16. NsCDE-Keybindings.conf

For CDE clone and CDE compatibility, key bindings are a bit problematic area. In my local installation of open sourced CDE in virtual machine with CentOS 7, (didn't bothered to install Solaris 10 to examine their flavor again), key bindings are almost non-existent. Alt+F4 usually closes the window and that's it. Because of this fact, and because NsCDE is not only a visual clone of the CDE, but it aims to provide more functionality and to be useful daily driver for user to enjoy in familiar look and feel (hated by a lot of people) and to be seriously productive in the same time, comfortable and quick, to have good graphic (such as anti-aliased fonts, but this also can be turned off), a set of useful key bindings is defined by default. This default keybindings set can be extended, partially overridden (write your $FVWM_USERDIR/NsCDE-Keybinding.local), or completely replaced (copy the NsCDE-Keybinding.conf in $FVWM_USERDIR and edit, or even write from scratch). Defaults are author's daily driver. Notice when there is a reference to the "Menu" key this means also "Compose" on some keyboards.

If some unwanted or clashing keybindings needs to be cleared, for example Shift+Tab from the any context, use the following FVWM syntax:


Silent Key Tab A S -

For explanation what is the context, and what modifier, see FVWM explanation (copied from original default FVWM config and extended a bit). Namely: