Unbind a key

[dangitsegfault]

Hi. Is there a way to unbind a keybind. For example I use Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right to traverse words in a sentence but the default keybind in mango is set to take me to next workspace. I removed it from the config but I guess it is picking up the default keybind. I do not need this keybind right now. Is there a way to unbind it?

[Arthur031221]

You can remove those two bindings from the config file Mango actually loads. Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right are lines in the shipped config.conf; they are not hardcoded workspace shortcuts. In 0.17.4, the hardcoded binding list contains the Ctrl+Alt virtual-terminal bindings, not these arrow-key bindings.

I checked the 0.17.4 config and parser source with this small script:

$ python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
config = Path('assets/config.conf').read_text().splitlines()
builtin = Path('src/config/parse_config.c').read_text().split('static KeyBinding default_key_bindings[] = {', 1)[1].split('};', 1)[0]
for key in ('Left', 'Right'):
    matches = [line for line in config if line.startswith(f'bind=CTRL,{key},')]
    print(key, 'shipped config:', matches, 'built-in list:', key in builtin)
PY
Left shipped config: ['bind=CTRL,Left,viewtoleft_have_client,0'] built-in list: False
Right shipped config: ['bind=CTRL,Right,viewtoright_have_client,0'] built-in list: False

Mango 0.17.4 loads the file passed with mango -c FILE if you used that option. Otherwise it loads ~/.config/mango/config.conf when that file exists, falling back to /etc/mango/config.conf. It can also load more files through source= and source-optional=. Check the active file and its sourced files for these exact lines, remove them, then reload the config or restart Mango:

bind=CTRL,Left,viewtoleft_have_client,0
bind=CTRL,Right,viewtoright_have_client,0

If you edited a different file, Mango will continue using the lines from the active one. There is no need for an unbind directive for these two shortcuts.

[dangitsegfault]

Thanks. Restarting mango works. I guess hot reloading config does not.

[Arthur031221]

Glad restarting cleared it up. Mango 0.17.4 reparses key bindings when its reload action is invoked; saving the file alone does not invoke that action. The shipped configuration binds it to Super+r. If you used that binding and the old shortcuts remained, that is a separate reload issue, and restarting is a working workaround.

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