[openbox] Menu keybinding

Lucas Hazel lucas at die.net.au
Sat Mar 10 23:57:25 EST 2007


On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 05:28:50 +0100
Clay Barnes <clay.barnes at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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).
> 

You could also try chaining the key sequence.

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Lucas Hazel <lucas at die.net.au>

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