[openbox] how to prevent openbox to grab keystrokes ?

Mikael Magnusson mangosoft at comhem.se
Wed Mar 10 03:50:42 EST 2004


On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Marco Molteni wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 23:01:20 +0100 (CET)
> Mikael Magnusson <mangosoft at comhem.se> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Marco Molteni wrote:
> 
> [..]
> 
> > > What I am looking for is different: a way to _temporarily_ unset
> > > the keybindings. This would allow for the keys to be passed to
> > > the application that has keyboard focus.
> > > 
> > > For example, if scroll_lock is set, do not interpret the keystrokes.
> > > If scroll_lock is not set, interpret the keystrokes as usual.
> > > 
> > > marco
> > 
> > here's a semi-ugly hack for you
> 
> Mikael,
> 
> thanks for the patch. I corrected a typo (scrolllock_pressed was
> written once with 3 L and once with 2 L) and recompiled.
> 
> It works half and half, in the sense that if scroll_lock is set, openbox
> doesn't grab the keystroke any more (and this is good), but it doesn't
> pass the keystroke either to the focused windows (and so it doesn't
> work)

oh, heh, oops :) i'll try again later maybe

> thanks
> marco
> 

--
Mikael Magnusson



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