[openbox] Keyboard control of root menu

smoynes at nexus.carleton.ca smoynes at nexus.carleton.ca
Wed Mar 26 23:14:43 EST 2003


* Pat Martin (pmartin at patm.net) wrote:
> I have been playing with the configuration of epist and have a
> question about showRootMenu, it brings up the Root Menu but then I
> cannot manipulate it with the keyboard which kind of defeats the
> purpose of the command doesn't it. Unless of course it is just there
> for when you can't right click on the desktop and get the root
> menu. Is there any plans on putting that functionality into openbox?

The keybinding is there to work around rude applications that don't
pass the clicks on to the window manager. There are no plans to add
menu navigation using the keyboard to openbox 2. I am open to patches
though.
-- 
Scott Moynes http://www.icculus.org/openbox/
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as astronomy is about telescopes." -- Dijkstra



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