[openbox] Modifiers on keybindings

Dana Jansens danakj at orodu.net
Fri Feb 29 16:03:57 EST 2008


On 2/29/08, Delcides F. Sousa Jr <delcides at gmail.com> wrote:
>   Hi,
>
>     The documentation for bindings states that
>
>  KEY-COMBINATION is the key combination which you want to bind to the
>  actions. The format for the KEY-COMBINATION is: Modifier-Modifier-Key.
>  Any number of modifiers (0 or more) can be used together, and they are
>  each separated by a "-".
>
>     But certain actions, like NextWindow and PrevWindow seem to
>  require at least one modifier. I can bind a "common" key to
>  NextWindow, the dialog will show up but it won't select until I press
>  return.  Am I missing anything on the configuration ? Is it at all
>  possible to have Next/PrevWindow functioning without some sort of
>  modifier ?
>
>   Thanks for your input

It's ironic that you'd ask that now. :) This used to work though
stopped at some point in the 3.4 series.  We are going to be adding
other actions that allow instantaneous (linear)
NextWindow/PreviousWindow behaviour as soon as we can come up with a
nice name for them.  Any suggestions, anyone?



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