[openbox] Per-App Keybindings

Bruno Nunes semaj at netcabo.pt
Sun Feb 10 12:22:36 EST 2008


On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 11:00 -0500, Dana Jansens wrote:
> On 2/10/08, Knute <knuteh at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >  --- Dana Jansens <danakj at orodu.net> wrote:
> >
> >  > >  Since I don't want to have EVERY app that I send to that corner
> >  > >  resized, I was curious about whether keybindings can be made
> >  > >  app-specific al a fvmw?   I've searched the docs, and haven't
> >  > found
> >  > >  any, and went thru the archives back a few months, and didn't find
> >  > >  anything about this.
> >  > >
> >  > >  Is it in the works? or implimented? or is this the first time it's
> >  > been
> >  > >  brought up?  :D
> >  >
> >  > Hey,
> >  >
> >  > This hasn't really been brought up that I recall but it is something
> >  > I'm planning on doing.  That is, to be able to run an action on any
> >  > window or set of windows.  I will do this sometime. :)
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > Dana
> >
> >
> > Just in thinking about it, it would seem that all the code is in place
> >  for it.
> >
> >  I mean, you have the App recognition code already, and the keybinding
> >  code.  It would seem that all that is needed is to add the
> >  <application>blah</application>  tags to the keybindings.
> >
> >  Hrmmmm...  Maybe it's time to get source and see.  :)
> 
> Hm, I guess that would be one way to do it.  My idea is to have tags,
> both static and dynamic.
> 
> That is.. you can define window Foo to be tagged Bar in the rc.xml
> with per-app settings, but you can also use an action to tag/untag
> windows on screen.
> 
> Then, the action would specify a tag which would go to any windows
> tagged as such.  The tag could be shown in the titlebar I think.
> 
> 
> dana
> 
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i use http://www.sweb.cz/tripie/utils/wmctrl/ in combination with the
current binding mechanism of openbox to do this and some more.

bruno



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