[openbox] Single Key NextWindow

Delcides F. Sousa Jr delcides at gmail.com
Sun May 11 14:25:55 EDT 2008


On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Knute <knuteh at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- On Sun, 5/11/08, Dashing <dashing at hushmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > From: Dashing <dashing at hushmail.com>
>  > Subject: Re: [openbox] Single Key NextWindow
>  > To: openbox at icculus.org
>  > Date: Sunday, May 11, 2008, 8:42 AM
>
> > >> But when the window I want is up I cannot control
>  > it until I
>  > >> press Escape, and then the previous window is
>  > active again.
>  > >
>  > >If you press enter/return, you will select the window.
>  >
>  > I see you're right, I overlooked this because it
>  > didn't respond to
>  > keypad enter. Which is odd because I made them the same in
>  > xmodmap.
>  >
>  > It's one step closer but still not as convenient as
>  > I'd like.
>
>  I have a dynex multimedia switch app key on my keyboard, and it switches apps without a problem.
>
>  My bindings for next window are set to <alt><tab>.
>
>  I haven't set anything with that, and it just works.
>
>  Don't know if that's any help or not, but I hope that it is.
>
>  Knute
>
>
   Note that <alt> is a modifier. If you try to make NextWindow work
without involving at least one modifier you'll get the problem he's
reporting. I asked the same question some time ago ( I was trying to
bind mouse clicks on RootWindow to NextWindow).

Delcides.



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