I want to set up a hotkey for each of my 4 rabidvwm 1.1.1 desktops. I tried putting the following lines in my themeevars.rc file...

*Hotkey WIN 1 !vWMDesk 1
*Hotkey WIN 2 !vWMDesk 2
*Hotkey WIN 3 !vWMDesk 3
*Hotkey WIN 4 !vWMDesk 4

but i got "error processing definition". So i changed to

*Hotkey WIN a !vWMDesk 1
*Hotkey WIN s !vWMDesk 2
*Hotkey WIN d !vWMDesk 3
*Hotkey WIN f !vWMDesk 4

and it got past it with no errors. But when it came to using the hotkeys, all that seemed to happen was that the windows on the screen would minimize, and occasionally pop up on another desktop. It didn't change the desktop at all.

I'm using the "Blaze" theme, if that makes any difference. What am i doing wrong? Is there another !bang command from another module i should be using?

well, I dunno. they work for me. are you sure you're loading hotkey, and not jkey? oh, also, take those lines out of themevars.rc, and put them into hotkey.rc.

You might get an "error processing definition" if those key combinations are already in use by another application. For example I was getting an error when defining WIN O because my file manager had defined a function for this same combination.