[openbox] [SOLVED] vim-style keybindings in Openbox menus

Mikael Magnusson mikachu at gmail.com
Wed Aug 5 10:17:12 EDT 2009


2009/8/5 dcarroll <dennis at rubgrp.com>:
>
> I haven't noticed any side-effects. And I certainly can't pretend to
> understand how or why it works. In fact I won't be surprised if it stops
> working some day. Just enjoying it while it lasts.

Does the "trick" stop the normal arrow keys from working in the menu?
If it does, the explanation is simple, the alphanumeric keys have lower
keycodes than the arrow keys, and openbox simply looks for the keys
by the keysym (ie "Down", "Up" etc), and finds the alphanumeric ones first.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson


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