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stratosjack

New Member

Registered: 2013-09-13

Posts: 6

problem with openbox rc shortcuts [SOLVED]

Even though I use crunchbang for about two years now, this is my first post.
So it's really nice to meet you all, you're great!

To the point...
So I've made this script ( named toggleTouchpad ) that helps me toggle the synaptics touchpad ON/OFF, which I also placed in my ~/bin folder for my $PATH.

### this a script that uses synaptics driver to switch on/off the touchpad...
#!/bin/bash
STATE=$(synclient | grep TouchpadOff | cut -d = -f2)
if [ $STATE == 1 ]; then
	synclient TouchpadOff=0
else
	synclient TouchpadOff=1
fi

Then I added a shortcut key (Super-p) in the openbox rc.xml file, that executes the above script.

...
<keybind key="W-p">
      <action name="Execute">
        <name>Toggle TouchPad ON/OFF</name>
        <execute>toggleTouchpad</execute>
      </action>
</keybind>
...

Then it happens: first time I press the combination, everything seems to be working, just like I expected.
But second time I press the shortcut, nothing happens. Feels like the shortcut is dead.
There's also a syndaemon running, with interval 1 sec ( syndaemon -d -K -i 1 ) from the openbox autostart file.
Nevertheless I can confirm that the script is working correctly, no matter how many times I run it through terminal.
What's happening?

Last edited by stratosjack (2013-09-18 20:59:45)

cup_of_squirrel

#! CrunchBanger

From: New York City

Registered: 2013-08-29

Posts: 141

Re: problem with openbox rc shortcuts [SOLVED]

Not sure if this would be helpful but check out this post. It deals with conky restart script but I think you're running into the same problem (i.e. daemon/script not shutting down properly).

stratosjack

New Member

Registered: 2013-09-13

Posts: 6

Re: problem with openbox rc shortcuts [SOLVED]

No luck with conkywonkys here....
I was thinking maybe an option like 'run in terminal' inside rc.xml perhaps?

VDP76

#! Bean Roaster

Registered: 2012-04-12

Posts: 839

Re: problem with openbox rc shortcuts [SOLVED]

I was thinking maybe an option like 'run in terminal' inside rc.xml perhaps?

see if this does the trick...

<keybind key="W-p">
      <action name="Execute">
        <name>Toggle TouchPad ON/OFF</name>
        <execute>terminator --command=&quot;toggleTouchpad&quot;</execute>
      </action>
</keybind>

Last edited by VDP76 (2013-09-18 19:57:36)

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stratosjack

New Member

Registered: 2013-09-13

Posts: 6

Re: problem with openbox rc shortcuts [SOLVED]

Yeah, that did the trick, thanks!
We found a workaround, so I guess its solved.