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Configuring XFCE keyboard shotcuts for tiling windows

The default keyboard shortcuts for tiling a window to the left or right half of the screen are:

<Super>KP_Left
<Super>KP_right

where the "KP_" prefix (I think) denotes the numeric keypad, which is not present on my laptop. I therefore want to configure these shortcuts to use the regular arrow keys instead. One way to do this is via the XFCE Settings application, as shown below.

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I've added two new properties to the xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts section:

<Super>KP_Left = tile_left_key
<Super>KP_right = tile_right_key

Both properties are of type "String":

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