[openbox] Patch: vim bindings for move/resize

Brian Mattern rephorm at rephorm.com
Mon Nov 29 13:18:21 EST 2010


On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Dana Jansens wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Brian Mattern <rephorm at rephorm.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:08:36AM -0800, Brian Mattern wrote:
> > > >Attached is a patch to add vim keybindings (hjkl) to keyboard move /
> > > >resize operations.
> 
> 
> You could use a chroot to enter a "move/resize mode".  It won't have all the
> nice features of an interactive move/resize right now though.
> 
> The patch as it is won't work because it assumes a qwerty keyboard layout,
> and that's a serious issue.  I would take a patch to add configurable
> bindings for directions, which could control both the menu and move/resize
> operations.
> 

Actually, it does look like it is possible to fully replicate the built in
move/resize bindings using a chroot.

But, I agree, it would be nice to just have a configurable mapping of
the keys. I'll try to find some time to look at this in the next week or
two.

Brian


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