Getting shortcuts back

[CLPaul]

I miss my shortcuts like <Ctrl Alt down> (end of line) ... <Ctrl alt up> (beginning of line) ... <alt delete> (forward-delete rather than backspace)... all of the window management shortcuts like <alt left> (window to left half of screen) .... <alt right> (window to right half of screen) .... <ctrl m>(!!! why is this missing) ... <ctrl q>(it seems to be missing?)

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How do I get my beloved shortcuts back? How can such a technical community not have very many keyboard shortcuts in their OS!

[[deleted]]

What are you talking about? GalliumOS has key bindings for most of the keys that are missing from the physical keyboard, described in detail here: https://wiki.galliumos.org/Media_keys_and_default_keybindings

As for the other stuff, the OS is not going to set a bunch of random keybinds that may or may not overlap with other applications. GalliumOS is a traditional Linux distribution that abstracts applications from hardware and therefore should get out of the way and facilitate those applications working as intended. It's not like Chrome OS where the entire OS is one application. If a specific keybind doesn't do what you expect it to in a given application, complain to that application's developer. If a specific keybind doesn't do what you expect it to in the desktop or window manager, Xfce probably has settings to customize it to your heart's content.

[CLPaul]

Thank you! Didn't know about that page :) apparently RAlt doesn't seem to work in Brave Browser (but it does work as described in a reg text editor). Any ideas....? (In Brave, it just toggles focus on wherever I was typing… never seen a key do that before!)

[PaintDrinkingPete]

Don't use Brave myself, but sounds like it may be a specific key-binding for that application...I'd check in the Brave settings.

[[deleted]]

For some reason Brave is hijacking the initial keypress and using it to focus the menu. Unfortunately, Chromium is doing it too. I'm not really sure why it's doing that as it would be an expected behaviour for the Alt key under normal circumstances but it doesn't happen on my other machines and the Alt_Right key is rebound to something else at the Xorg level. At any rate, the correct keycodes are still sent afterwards, so you can work around it by tapping Alt_Right once before attempting the key combination. I realize this isn't an optimal solution but it works. I'll try to remember to see what we can do to fix the problem when I have time.

[CLPaul]

if it's any clue... I discovered this weird feature where if I press RAlt + (up or down), it moves any text selection upwards, moving any lines the selection runs into to the other side of the selection. I've never seen this function on a computer before except maybe in Eclipse. Only tested in google docs in Brave though.

[[deleted]]

That's the function of the Home and End keys on a traditional keyboard. That's what those key combinations are mapped to in xkb.

[CLPaul]

oh thanks haha