[openbox] Menu keybinding

Clay Barnes clay.barnes at gmail.com
Sat Mar 10 23:28:50 EST 2007


On 22:20 Sat 10 Mar     , Troy Curtis Jr wrote:
> On 3/10/07, Dana Jansens <danakj at orodu.net> wrote:
> >On 3/10/07, Troy Curtis Jr <troycurtisjr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I want to use the Menu key in one of my Openbox keybindings.  I have
> >> tried both "M-l" and "Menu-l" to no avail.  I checked the output of
> >> "xev" and it indeed show up as "Menu".
> >>
> >> Any ideas on how to get this to work?
> >
> >Menu is not a modifier key, it's just a regular key. You'll notice if
> >you hold down Control in xev, it doesn't repeat, but if you hold down
> >Menu, it does.
> >
> 
> OH!  Well that stinks....I don't suppose this is configurable?

Take a look at the documentation for xmodmap.  You can use that to map
the "menu" key to an unused modifier (though I don't know which ones
other than Control,Alt,Shift, and Meta4(Windows) OB3 supports).

-- 
Clay Barnes



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