[openbox] epist better than bbkeys BUT....

[Marius Nita]

On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 10:27:09PM -0600, Ava Arachne Jarvis wrote:
> [Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper - Sun, 10 Nov 2002 08:50:19 PM CST]
> > er. I think there's already something that cancels a key-chain.  
> 
> Nope.  Not in the man page for epistrc.  Fluxbox's built-in keygrabber
> does have something to cancel a key-chain.

the action is "cancelChain." you can bind it like any other action:

  Mod1-Shift-g cancelChain;

It might have escaped undocumented... I'll take a look.

> > And I'm just curious--in what ways is epist better than bbkeys, as the
> > subject says?
> 
> Epist has key chains (as long as you want), bbkeys doesn't, last I 
> checked.  Plus the file rc format is more sane, but that's just my
> opinion.  Being able to define several key chains of varying length but 
> similar prefix like this is nice:
> 
>    Mod3-d {
>        r changeWorkspace 1; 
>        w changeWorkspace 2;
>        m changeWorkspace 3;
>        g changeWorkspace 4;
>        Shift-g changeWorkspace 5;
>        j changeWorkspace 6;
>        Shift-w changeWorkspace 7;
>        d changeWorkspace 8;
>    
>        Mod3-c {
>            m changeWorkspace 9;
>            w changeWorkspace 10;
>        }
>    
>        Mod3-r {
>            r changeWorkspace 11;
>            w changeWorkspace 12;
>        }
>    
>        Mod3-p {
>            o changeWorkspace 13;
>            Shift-o changeWorkspace 14;
>            m changeWorkspace 15;
>        }
>    
>        Shift-h execute "deskhelp";
>    }
> 
> 
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