[openbox] Lockable Key-chains

Clay Barnes clay.barnes at gmail.com
Sun Aug 27 21:35:38 EDT 2006


On 23:52 Sun 27 Aug     , Bartosz Oudekerk wrote:
> Mikael Magnusson wrote on Sat, 26 Aug, 2006 at 01:29:55PM +0200:
> > On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, Bartosz Oudekerk wrote:
> > 
> > >I thought it might be a great feature to 'lock' a chainkey, so that
> > >when you press a certain key-combination, you enter a sort of command
> > >mode.
> > >
> > ><keybind key="C-o">
> > > <keybind key="Up">
> > >   <action name="MoveRelativeVert"><delta>-20</delta></action>
> > > </keybind>
> > ></keybind>
> > >
> > >With the above example, I press Up once, and then have to start over
> > >again, I'd like to be able to keep pressing Up, until I either cancel
> > >the chain or it times out.
> > >
> > >Is this at all possible, and if not could it be added? Thanks.
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2769
> 
> Ah, I should have searched that first.
> 
> > It shouldn't be impossible to add, but I probably won't be the one doing 
> > it anytime soon.
> 
> I don't know if it'll change anything, but I'd be willing to pay for
> such a feature. I don't have that much to spend, but perhaps others
> (clay, jonas), would be willing to chime in?
Depends on how much it would take.  I'd be willing to throw in a little
money for this feature to save the time of coding it myself.  I'm trying
to get two seperate degrees at once (not a double-major), so I am rather
short on time to learn the codebase enough to build such a feature.

Mikeal?  What's your price for it?
> 
> I have one thing to add to the original request, which isn't clear from
> either my or clays description. It should be possible to use several
> different commands within the mode, not just one multiple times.
> 
> -- 
> Bartosz Oudekerk
> 
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