Xmonad Win-L conflicts with Windows desktop

Question

So I have xmonad running remotely. All is good and I'm using the Win key instead of Alt. The problem is, when I want to resize an xmonad window with Alt+L, this locks the screen in my Windows desktop. How can I rebind Alt+L to something like Alt+Shift+H?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 04 '15 at 17:32

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You can see the source code for the default mappings here. To rebind the Alt+L key to Alt+Shift+H you can use the additionalKeys function to add new key bindings to your config:

import XMonad.Util.EZConfig

main = xmonad $ defaultConfig {
         ...
     } `additionalKeys` [
        ((shiftMask .|. mod1Mask, xK_h), sendMessage Expand)
     ]

edited Jun 04 '15 at 17:32

jesterjunk

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answered May 03 '15 at 22:38

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emacs tells me `additionalKeys` is not in scope. Sorry, I don't speak Haskell yet. How can I correct this? – dmvianna May 03 '15 at 23:14
Ah, sorry, you need to import the `XMonad.Util.EZConfig` module to get access to that function. – fimad May 03 '15 at 23:18
couldn't match type XConfig l0 -> KeyMask ... probable cause: modMask is applied to too few arguments – dmvianna May 03 '15 at 23:43
Updated the snippet, it should be mod1Mask for the alt key. – fimad May 04 '15 at 00:30
Awesome. I changed it to **mod4Mask** to make it **`Win`+`Shift`+`H`**. Thanks! – dmvianna May 04 '15 at 00:42

Xmonad Win-L conflicts with Windows desktop

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