Keybinding "A-Up" and "A-Down" with rc.xml [Solved]

Steve · 2012-04-12 08:26:43

I'm having trouble keybinding absolutely anything to <Alt>Up and/or <Alt>Down. For example the following keybind should open Chromium when I hold the ALT and UP ARROW keys:

<keybind key="A-Up">
<action name="Execute">
<startupnotify>
<enabled>true</enabled>
<name>Web Browser</name>
</startupnotify>
<command>chromium</command>
</action>
</keybind>

But chromium fails to open. Although there are many key combinations where I can get chromium to open, I've listed two interesting ones as examples here:

one: <keybind key="A-Left">
two: <keybind key="W-Up">

The first suggests that the ALT key I have works in combination with the left/right arrow keys.
The second suggests that the UP and DOWN arrow keys also work when combined with the SUPER key.

So I can safely assure you that my keyboard is working correctly and that I am reconfiguring OB after updating my rc.xml.
I also checked the rest of my rc.xml file and couldn't find any duplicate instances of A-Up and/or A-Down.

It seems I'm just unable to bind anything to the key combination: ALT + UP and/or ALT + DOWN. Any thoughts on what could be going on here would greatly be appreciated!

Cheers,

Steve

Mr Green · 2012-04-12 10:08:01

Works A-Up works fine for me, after reconfiguring openbox

handy · 2012-04-12 18:16:06

You could test whether you are calling Chromium properly by calling it to open automatically on a specified desktop when Openbox starts.

I use the following to open Firefox on desktop 5:

This post in a thread over at Spiralinear.org has some info' that helped me a lot when I was first messing about with my rc.xml (thanks go to urukrama), it could most especially be of assistance if Chromium uses a different name or class, also the case of the first letter of the name can bring it all undone:

http://spiralinear.org/forum/viewtopic. … t=10#p1646

Steve · 2012-04-13 21:30:36

Ok, I've had some luck, but am still having difficulties. Here's what I've done since:

1. Copied the rc.xml file from the live cd.
2. Copied this file to both /etc/xdg/openbox/rc.xml and ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml

3. I went Preferences -> Openbox config -> Key Editor to open obkey program.
4. I then inserted four sibling keybinds for: ALT+Up, ALT+Down, ALT+Right and ALT+Left each with the chroot option.
5. Save and Reboot.

6. I then go Preferences -> Openbox config -> Key Editor to open obkey again.
7. I remove the four keybinds I just made.

And this fixes the keybinding problem I have had. The ALT+Up and ALT+Down keys now allow me to freely navigate Terminator (up and down, respectively) after splitting vertically. Perfect. This is exactly what I wanted to achieve.

However if I reboot, the problem persists and I need to restart these steps to make sure ALT+Up and ALT+Down are unbound. And I need ALT+Up and ALT+Down unbound to navigate Terminator easily.

So ... it seems (at least I think it seems ...) that upon booting my machine, something is being bound on top of ALT+Up and ALT+Down. What is it? What could this be? Is there an easy way to find out what is being bound?

Mr Green · 2012-04-14 00:27:10

I have not used chrooted keychains but this may help

http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Bindings#C … key_chains

Steve · 2012-04-14 07:27:53

Solved. ALT+Up and ALT+Down were bound in "Mixer" (Volume control). I must have forgot that I bound this. I should probably log everything or stop drinking...

Thanks all.

Mr Green · 2012-04-14 13:49:00

Will mark thread as solved, beers are on Steve

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Keybinding "A-Up" and "A-Down" with rc.xml [Solved]

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Re: Keybinding "A-Up" and "A-Down" with rc.xml [Solved]

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Re: Keybinding "A-Up" and "A-Down" with rc.xml [Solved]

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Re: Keybinding "A-Up" and "A-Down" with rc.xml [Solved]

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Re: Keybinding "A-Up" and "A-Down" with rc.xml [Solved]

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Re: Keybinding "A-Up" and "A-Down" with rc.xml [Solved]

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Re: Keybinding "A-Up" and "A-Down" with rc.xml [Solved]

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