[openbox] Print Screen keybinding not honored

[Marius Nita]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 04:13:50AM -0500, James Michaeil Fultz wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I'm running Openbox 3.0 on Slackware Linux 9.1.  Try as I might, Openbox
> is not grabbing my Print Screen key.  I've tested with xev, and the
> Print keysym is being reported.  I've been using Openbox with GNOME 2.4
> and have tried running it on its own.
> 
> The following is copied from the <keyboard> section of my
> `~/.config/openbox/rc.xml'.
> 
> [ Begin code ]
>   <keybind key="Print">
>     <action name="Execute"><execute>gnome-panel-screenshot</execute></action>
>   </keybind>
>   <keybind key="A-Print">
>     <action name="Execute">
>       <execute>gnome-panel-screenshot --window</execute>
>     </action>
>   </keybind>
> [  End code  ]
> 
> Neither keybindings are being honored.  I've also tried changing both
> <execute> lines to run xterm while running Openbox on its own.
> 
> I've had this working before on Gentoo Linux.  I currently have
> keybindings for A-F1 and A-F2 to run "gnome-panel-control --main-menu"
> and "gnome-panel-control --run-dialog" respectively as well as a
> keybinding for Menu to show root-menu.  Those keybindings are working
> for me.
> 
> Any help with regards to this problem would be much appreciated.

This is probably because you've enabled Magic SysRq in the kernel
configuration.