How to disable shortcuts in fullscreen app?

answered 2014-05-08 10:43:40 +0000

Adaephon
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You can use a mode to achieve that:

mode "passthrough" {
    bindsym Mod4+Escape mode "default"
}
bindsym Mod4+Escape mode "passthrough"

Pressing Mod4+Escape will enter the mode "passthrough" in which only Mod4+Escape will be available as binding to return to the "default" mode.

If you want to enter the mode automatically you could then use a short wrapper script, passthrough.sh:

#!/bin/sh
i3-msg 'mode "passthrough"'
"$@"
i3-msg 'mode "default"'

Instead of game -option1 -option2 you then can use passthrough.sh game -option1 -option2 to start the game.