[openbox] How to use caps lock key to launch an app?

Noth doth.gschwind at gmail.com
Fri Aug 8 04:24:00 EDT 2008


Hello,

I think you can use gnome-session-properties and add script at gnome lauch.

Best regards

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 3:45 AM, Mikael Magnusson <lists at bak.och.fr.am> wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, chombee at lavabit.com wrote:
>
>>> chombee at lavabit.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone think of a way to use both at once?
>>>>
>>> As a cheap (read: crappy) fix, you could make the xmodmap command in
>>> your autostart sleep for a while to let g-s-d do its thing.  Something
>>> like:
>>>
>>> (sleep 10 && xmodmap...) &
>>>
>>> but then things won't work for 10 seconds.
>>
>> Yeah that works, thanks, and 3 seconds seems to be enough. I had tried it
>> myself but I got the syntax wrong.
>>
>> It's a shame that it's so hard to turn the caps lock key into something
>> useful on linux, I have to remap to some other sacrificial key then use
>> that key, and doing it means messing around with multiple config files.
>> GNOME's settings only let you remap it to Escape, nothing else. Ah well,
>> at least it works, it's practically the biggest key on the keyboard so
>> it's really great for summoning a launcher.
>
> IIRC, which i probably don't, you can configure this somewhere deep in the
> bowels of gnome control center.
>
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