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Topic: Developers note: GUI to edit keyboard shortcuts for Openbox

Copying from the LXDE dev list - hackers here may wish to help:

[Lxde-list] Keyboard shortcuts for openbox

...Slowly, I've started to develop a graphical application for editing keyboard shortcuts for openbox. At the present day, it is not ready for release, but it is fully functional.
Please if you have time have a look. It is C++ code, and depends of GTK and libxml2.

I'll wait for your replies. Happy hacking

keybinder.tar.bz2

 

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Last edited by Chriswaterguy (2010-03-25 08:14:53)

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Re: Developers note: GUI to edit keyboard shortcuts for Openbox

Theres also obkey if you're interested:

http://code.google.com/p/obkey/

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Re: Developers note: GUI to edit keyboard shortcuts for Openbox

anonymous wrote:

Theres also obkey if you're interested:

http://code.google.com/p/obkey/

Cool. That's python, so I guess it's not really light. Or is it small enough to not matter much? If it needs python to be running, then I'd guess it's not light.

Of course it's still useful, for the design ideas.

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Re: Developers note: GUI to edit keyboard shortcuts for Openbox

Python is actually fairly light and fast; the Madbox launcher runs on it.  And you really only run it to change your rc.xml, so unless you're constantly changing your keybindings...

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Re: Developers note: GUI to edit keyboard shortcuts for Openbox

pvsage wrote:

Python is actually fairly light and fast; the Madbox launcher runs on it.  And you really only run it to change your rc.xml, so unless you're constantly changing your keybindings...

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its not like youre going to be running it constantly

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Re: Developers note: GUI to edit keyboard shortcuts for Openbox

Hi all, I'm having a very strange problem with obkey: tha program cannot save changes to the rc.xml of crunchbang...however, if I replace crunchbang rc.xml with one created by me on another system, obkey works perfectly.

Any suggestions please?

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Re: Developers note: GUI to edit keyboard shortcuts for Openbox

^probably has something to do with the way obkey identifies sections of the .xml file and the way the crunchbang one is organized.

another useful OB app is obapps lets you click on a window to select it then change the default ob properties for that window (e.g., placement, size, decorations, etc.)

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Re: Developers note: GUI to edit keyboard shortcuts for Openbox

bobrossw wrote:

^probably has something to do with the way obkey identifies sections of the .xml file and the way the crunchbang one is organized.

another useful OB app is obapps lets you click on a window to select it then change the default ob properties for that window (e.g., placement, size, decorations, etc.)

that sounds amazing, i can't wait to get home to try it out. thanks for the tip smile

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