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

Dana Jansens danakj at orodu.net
Sun Mar 23 13:59:11 EDT 2014


On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:46 PM, <meino.cramer at gmx.de> wrote:

> Dana Jansens <danakj at orodu.net> [14-03-23 17:20]:
> > 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
>
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> Hi Dana,
>
> thank you for your help! :)
>
> From the explanation in the linked text I would expect, that after
> CAQ all keypressed are passed untouched through openbox to the window
> which has focus.
>
> When I press CAQ a tiny extra """window""" pops up and displays "C-A-Q".
> So I think, open box had understood the keys I pressed.
>
> Unfortunately it does not works as I expected (which mostly means: My
> expectations are wrongly designed ;))
>
> For example: I start blender. In blender Alt Right Mouse botton
> connects two material nodes.
> In Openbox the same keycombo resizes the focussed window.
>
> After blender runs I click it so it has focus.
> I press "CAQ" (the tiny window pops up) and press RMB.
> The material nodes remain untocuhed and the blender window
> gets resized.
>
> How can I fix either my expectation or my configuration, which
> I copied 1:1 from the linked text?
>

Ah, mouse bindings are different, there's no way to chroot mouse bindings
currently. This would only work for key binds.


>
> Best regards,
> mcc
>
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