[openbox] Disabling certain keybindings, if a certain window/aaplication has focus

[Dana Jansens]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 4:41 AM, <meino.cramer at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am using Blender a lot and Blender has so many functions
> (especially when counting the addons additionally), that
> nearly no keycombination is left unused for shortcuts/hotkeys.
> Many keybindings can be configurated in Blender, but there
> is a limit of speed increase when you start configuring
> keybindings like LSHIFT+LALT+ALTGR+RSHIFT+F4 for something... ;)
>
> Keybindings of addons are often hardcoded into the addon itsself.
>
> To ease this situation I would like to disable some of openbox's
> keybindings, when the window of Blender has focus, so Blender
> get all this keycombinations.
>
> If another window gets focus, the original keybindings of openbox
> should become active again.
>
> Wonderful plan ... but I have no idea how to accomplish that... ;)
>
> Would it be possible? And how?
>

This sounds like what you want, kinda. You could add a few keybinds inside
the chroot that you want to keep.

http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Bindings#Key_quoting_with_Chroots
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://icculus.org/pipermail/openbox/attachments/20140323/c021ef07/attachment.html>