How to change the Shortcut Keys?

In the Openbox rc.xml file, the uppercase w (W) signifies the super or "windows" key. If you want the main menu to be <super> w the here is the snippet from the rc.xml. Letter case is important!

    <keybind key="W-w">
      <action name="ShowMenu">
        <menu>root-menu</menu>
      </action>
    </keybind>

In the past I have set Gnome-Do to Ctrl + Super + Spacebar with <keybind key="C-W-space"> Currently I'm running #! sans the Do.

Last edited by kestrel (2008-12-23 00:46:06)

Sorry, I muddled my question!

I don't want to use 'super' and 'w', just 'super' all on it's own. I figured out that 'W' was super, but on it's lonesome, it just becomes a plain old non-super 'w'. Incidentally, I've set gnome-do to use Alt-space, which will work just fine for me. 

I've also been trying in vain to change the desktop-context scrollwheel behaviour from switching desktops! I do that accidentally all the time!

THe Holy Grail that Do is after is to be able to launch any application together with any file on your machine and to Do this with just a few keyboard strokes. No mousing around for the Kenny G song or the link to a recently visited website. It does all this coolness without any preconfiguring in advance. It scans you disk for apps and files. It is worth a look.

Okay, answer from 'Mikachu' in #openbox:

The shortcut for the super key is either Meta_L or Super_L (Or _R for the other key).

However, this will override any other combination that uses that key!

I actually may make this change, and come up with different shortcuts for the apps I need, but I'm reluctant to change any OS defaults too much. Every change is something I have to remember to backup/reconfigure if/when I reinstall.

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The scrollwheel/desktop switcher may only be a problem for me, because  have the a.d.d. tendency to click and scroll my mouse on random crap when I'm thinking. If you want to turn it off, find the relevant bit of code and comment it out, thusly:

<!--   Scrollwheel switches desktop and pisses me off
<mousebind button="Up" action="Click">
        <action name="DesktopPrevious"/>
      </mousebind>
      <mousebind button="Down" action="Click">
        <action name="DesktopNext"/>
      </mousebind> -->

hello.

i am trying but failing trick out the shortcut menu for the first time.  i want to use Super+4 to invoke libreoffice-calc but i keep getting this msg:

Failed to execute child process "libreoffice-calc"

i first tried with just "calc".  i also tried to code with W+s, thinking maybe numbers don.t work but that didn.t help either.  do i need to actually author a more precise path or what...?