Change keyboard shortcut for xf4lock

Marcus Moeller mail at marcusmoeller.ch
Sun Feb 17 10:32:45 UTC 2013


Hi,

>> by fedora's default the shortcut for xflock4 CTRL+ALT+DEL but I'd
>> suggest to change that shortcut to SUPER+L because this would be more
>> intuitive to users which used Windows before. And second CTRL+ALT+DEL
>> is the shortcut for launching the taskmanager on most systems.
>
> As you can see at
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/libxfce4ui.git/tree/libxfce4ui-4.10.0-keyboard-shortcuts.patch
> we don't change that shortcut, we follow upstream. I have no intentions
> of changing it because for me Xfce upstream counts more than Windows or
> any other OS. This shortcut has been around in Xfce for ages and people
> are used to it. If you want it changed, I suggest you ask upstream.

I would also keep the default. It's quite easy to change these settings 
in the keyboard configuration dialog. E.g. I am using Ctrl+Alt+l

Greets
Marcus


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