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errorist

#! Member

Registered: 2012-05-24

Posts: 80

[Mainly solved]OB-Xml-tags and -actions

Just returned to rc.xml after 3 months,getting soon some deja-vus!
First point,can anyone tell me the name of the cli-app that returns a
bunch of infos about pressed keys,I forgot the name.I need it for the
correct keynames for the keyboard-section in the rc.xml.
Some of the names,like Degree,Minus and others don't work.I need nearly
the complete keyboard,has someone the keynames of all the keys,working
with OB?
In KDE,I remember,all the keys are working for shortcuts,but there they
are not choosen by their names.
Another point is,is there a complete list of the Xml-tags and the actions,
you can use in the OB-rc.xml?
After a hard search I found some more as were presented in the standart
rc.xml.Now I have some new ones from corenominal's tiling-shortcuts.
But I believe,there are a lot of others.Anyone some clues?

Last edited by errorist (2012-05-29 22:37:31)

Unia

#! Die Hard

From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2010-07-17

Posts: 3,176

Re: [Mainly solved]OB-Xml-tags and -actions

The cli app you're looking for is xev

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errorist

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Registered: 2012-05-24

Posts: 80

Re: [Mainly solved]OB-Xml-tags and -actions

Thanks,Unia!
Now I have only to check,why some of the keynames are not working.Maybe its
due to wrong cases.

cxexa

Member

From: L5 - DBAA23 - C2187

Registered: 2009-11-06

Posts: 24

Re: [Mainly solved]OB-Xml-tags and -actions

http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Actions
http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Bindings#Modifiers
http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Bindings#Syntax
- - -
http://urukrama.wordpress.com/openbox-guide/

Hope there is something useful there.

cxexa

errorist

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Registered: 2012-05-24

Posts: 80

Re: [Mainly solved]OB-Xml-tags and -actions

Thank you,cxexa!
I know,there is comprehensive documentation available for OB(have the most stuff local here).
But these sources all suffer from completeness.
The few ones in corenominals tiling-shortcuts I never saw anywhere.Somewhere read,that the
actions are from the xorg instructionset,have to search in that direction,I think.

errorist

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Registered: 2012-05-24

Posts: 80

Re: [Mainly solved]OB-Xml-tags and -actions

I looked through the docs again,and what did I found?
There are really some actions like the tiling ones,corenominal has put
into the CB-rc.xml!
But even better,there are additional ones,useable for tiling.
In the docs they are a little different(older?),they use a more detailed
style.
The shrinking actions I got only working in the long form!
If anyone is interested,here is my complete tiling-section,put into a
keychain:

    <!-- Keybindings for window tiling -->
    <keybind key="W-t">
        <keybind key="C-Right">
            <action name="MoveToEdgeEast"/>
        </keybind>
        <keybind key="C-Left">
            <action name="MoveToEdgeWest"/>
        </keybind>
        <keybind key="C-Down">
            <action name="MoveToEdgeSouth"/>
        </keybind>
        <keybind key="C-Up">
            <action name="MoveToEdgeNorth"/>
        </keybind> 
        <keybind key="W-Right">
            <action name="GrowToEdgeEast"/>
        </keybind>
        <keybind key="W-Left">
            <action name="GrowToEdgeWest"/>
        </keybind>
        <keybind key="W-Down">
            <action name="GrowToEdgeSouth"/>
        </keybind>
        <keybind key="W-Up">
            <action name="GrowToEdgeNorth"/>
        </keybind> 
        <keybind key="A-Right">
            <action name="ShrinkToEdge"><direction>east</direction></action>
        </keybind>
        <keybind key="A-Left">
            <action name="ShrinkToEdge"><direction>west</direction></action>
        </keybind>
        <keybind key="A-Down">
            <action name="ShrinkToEdge"><direction>south</direction></action>
        </keybind>
        <keybind key="A-Up">
            <action name="ShrinkToEdge"><direction>north</direction></action>
        </keybind> 
    </keybind>
    

Maybe,you have to change the keybindings,and you can delete the current ones,
if you have them in your rc.xml.
The problem with the not working keynames is also solved,I don't know from
where I have the wrong ones,but using xev gave me all the right ones!
So I'm only interested in eventually existing actions,not covered in the
OB-wiki.