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Special hotkeys for Openbox and LXDE users



Hi all,

I made a bunch of hotkeys for Openbox and LXDE (which uses Openbox) to
make it easier for this kind of person:

* Touch typist who keeps his hands at home position
* Keyboard centric where possible
* When a mouse is needed, uses a real mouse, not a touchpad
	- Therefore a lot of the hotkeys involve only the left hand

http://a3b3.com/stuff/openbox_custom_keys.pdf

A little additional information:

* touchtoggle.sh turns a laptop mousepad on and off
* dmenu_slitt.sh runs dmenu however you like it
* root-menu is the Openbox menu, not the LXDE menu.
* runumenu.sh runs my homegrown UMENU program. Change to meet your
  needs.
* GoToDesktop up shows you your current desktop number
* S-C-l and S-C-h go desktop right and left, respectively, like Vim's l
  and r usage

The reason I use Shift+Ctrl combos so much is it's very easy to snake
your left hand around and down, press Ctrl with your pinky and Shift
with your ring finger, and then return to home typist position. It's
very fast.

By the way, you can implement these on almost any desktop environment
or window manager, but of course the config file won't be the same.

By the way, I forgot to put in the hotkey to toggle the focused
window's maximization:

    <keybind key="S-C-a">
        <action name="ToggleMaximize"/>
    </keybind>

Hope some of you enjoy it.

SteveT

Steve Litt                *  http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Troubleshooting Training  *  Human Performance


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