[openbox] Keybinds

Mikael Magnusson mangosoft at comhem.se
Mon May 5 15:51:38 EDT 2008


On Mon, 5 May 2008, Ben Price wrote:

> Hi,

> I understand that in the openbox rc.xml file, you can specify keybinds 
> with the name of the key, as reported by xev. However, I have one of 
> those keyboards with multimedia keys, and I would like bind them to 
> commands. xev reports "keycode <kc> (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol)" for each of 
> them (each keycode is different). Is there a way to bind these keys?

You can use xmodmap as the other post mentions, or you can bind the 
keycodes directly. Just specify the keycode in hex as the name and it will 
be bound. For example if the keycode is 16, you would write name="0x10".

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Mikael Magnusson



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