[openbox] Shift key misbehaviour in Openbox

Dave Coventry dgcoventry at gmail.com
Tue Jun 16 05:23:20 EDT 2015


Hi: Problem solved.

I found this: https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=4637.0 which
pretty much described my problem and was able to sort it by editing
the ~/.config/openbox/c.xml file and changing

<mousebind button="S-Left" action="Drag"> to
<mousebind button="W-Left" action="Drag">

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Dave Coventry <dgcoventry at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 2 machines both running Openbox as their window manager.
>
> I have a laptop and a Desktop with multiple monitors.
>
> I run Blender, the 3d modelling program on both (blender3d.org).
>
> This application uses the shift key to make multiple selections.
>
> On the laptop this works as expected, but on the Desktop machine the
> shift key modifier disables the click. (Leastways, nothing happens
> when a second item is clicked with the primary mouse button)
>
> I have already driven the Blender3D forum mods to distraction trying
> to find the cause, but it turns out it works fine under another WM
> like KDE.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> ~ Dave.
>
> PS thanks for a great WM, by the way!


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