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Forwarding key events

How do I send a key that Ion has grabbed to an application?

The quote_next function, bound by default to Mod1+K Q, might work, or it might not. Terminal emulators tend to disallow “SendEvents” by default, and these must be allowed before this feature will work. quote_next also will send the key to the main client window, not any subwindow within that might have been focused before the Mod1+K Q grab was initiated, but which information is no longer available in this binding handler.

Alternatively, with Ion3, use the switch_bindings script from the scripts repository to temporarily ungrab most of Ion's bindings.