[openbox] Programattically turning off key bindings

[Turku Ting]

bruce,

an interesting reply you got there from robert.
i don't understand the first part of what he wrote at all,
but i looked into this:
http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Bindings#Key_quoting_with_Chroots
and it seems to do more than 50% of what you're trying to achieve.

let us know how you're getting on with it!

whichever the solution, i suspect that it will only work while your application 
is running, as oppposed to while its window is focused.
you can use xdotool at the beginning & end of your script to send the key C-A-q
(or whichever key you bind to "BreakChroot").

greetings,

tt.


On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 14:43:01 -0500
"Robert ." <historyofstamp at gmail.com> wrote:

> There is a key expansion app "x neural switched" when so configured. It is
> a spelling correction app for non-native speaker of the language or using
> the wrong keyboard.  You have to turn that stuff off.  X Neural Switcher
> for Gnome, GTK2 frontend for Xneur. A. C. Kuznetsov and N. Yankin.
> 
> There is an action to toggle off and on all keybindings in openbox.  Here
> is what I do:
>  <keybind key="c-a-q" chroot="true">
>         <keybind key="c-a-q"><action name="BreakChroot"/></keybind>
>     </keybind>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Bruce <bbruen at paddys-hill.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hi openbox,
> >
> > I have never written here before, so hello from sunny South Australia!
> >
> >
> > I use an LXDE/Openbox system and am programming a script editing
> > application for my own use.
> >
> > I want to use the meta(/super/W) key within the program to "expand" text
> > entered based on some macros. So [meta+A] would expand to some text in
> > the editor like "1. Navigate to the blah-blah window." etc.
> >
> > The problem is that the standard openbox keybindings get in the way. So
> > what I'd like to know is, is there a library I could use to disable the
> > standard key bindings, but only inside that program.
> >
> > regards
> > Bruce
> >
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