[openbox] allow mouse and keyboard exclusively for a window

Martin mar at centrum.cz
Wed Feb 8 10:46:38 EST 2012


Thanks for a tip!

After a few hours of usage, this seems even better than what windowmaker
has.

m.

On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 03:20:58AM -0500, Dana Jansens wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Martin <mar at centrum.cz> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I stiwtched from WindowMaker to OpenBox some time ago and I am quite happy
> > with the change.
> >
> > Anyway, there is one thing still missing for me -- for special application
> > (vncviewer, gimp) it was possible in WindowMaker to set, that mouse and
> > keyboard was exclusively for this application (window) -- which has allowed
> > that special key/mouse bindings were not captured by the window manager
> > itself, but rather passed to the application in specified window.
> >
> > I am wondering if there is such a settings in OpenBox?  I am quite unable
> > to google it.
> >
>
> There is no such setting for an application. However one option is to make
> a chroot key binding with only one binding inside, to BreakChroot. Then
> when you want to turn off your keys, you hit the Chroot binding, and the
> only binding Openbox will honour is the BreakChroot inside.
>
> http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Bindings#Key_quoting_with_Chroots

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