There is a bewildering array of places to set bindings, all inconsistent with one another. E.g. in Unity's System Settings having
the Ctrl-key highlight
the mouse position is an on/off choice. I like
the feature, but not on such a prominent key where I keep activating it accidentally.
The keyboard shortcuts allow only one binding per command, where I might like a convenient one on
the external keyboard and an emergency alternative for when I'm on
the road.
Keyboard custom shortcuts has a nice interface, but allows only key bindings — besides it doesn't seem to work for me. So I activated CCSM Commands. There I have
the choice of key-, mouse- and/or edge bindings. Whereas some places in CCSM offers only one or two of these binding possibilities, randomly at
the whim of
the programmer.
I have not found a way to differentiate a mouse-drag from a click. E.g. I want <SuperMouse1-drag anywhere on a window to move it, while if I don't drag, it should be raise-lower. On
the title bar I want
the same without needing
the <Super key. Now I find raise-lower only in System Settings where I can't assign a mouse binding. If therefore in CCSM I fallback to only lower and put move on
the same binding,
the window already gets lowered on mouse down, and I can then invisibly move it. Very useful!
I have <Altasciicircum get in
the way of an Emacs binding, with some to me useless popup overlay. I can find it nowhere, so I can't turn it off.
So how can I go without these frontends until they have matured, and instruct Compiz directly, for example in
the way Emacs or Sawfish have keymaps, and separate ones for each context, with inheritance?
