obkey - openbox key editor - undead

ObKey development was dead.
it was reborn. and is sleeping again.

Actually, i no more use OpenBox since 2019.

If you use OpenBox and want to ensure ObKey still working well, feel free to grab the project
and notify in Issues you are improving it (there may have technical question you can ask).

News

Version 1.3 is released ! Obkey support searching (related to the command) and sorting. Some standard keybindings are now implemented:

• copy Control-c
• paste Control-v
• duplicate Control-d
• save Control-s
• reload file Control-z
• quit Control-s
• delete Delete

This is really not perfect and i wished to make it more accessible :

• To select an item, you can just press on up and down arrows, or start to search a pattern describing an existing action
• You can change the keybind by moving to the keybind field by pressing right arrow and space
• You can focused to all action fields with tab keys
• You'll probably use a mouse to setup keybindings easily and it is sad

Usage

# Minimalist
obkey

# Custom file
obkey rc.xml

# With foreign languages
LANGUAGE=fr obkey

Why ObKey ?

openbox is a very customizable Window Manager.
Its custom file is ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml...
For configuring it from GUI, there's ObConf and there's ObKey !

Installation

With Git

git clone https://github.com/luffah/obkey.git

# test it works (you can use it directly this way)
python obkey

# MANAGE DEPENDENCIES
# AND INSTALL

## With PIP and setup.py
sudo pip install gi gettext

sudo python setup.py install

## With Debian installer 
sudo apt install python-gi python-gettext
make installdeb

Without Git

Debian

Download the package here : Obkey for debian

Below the last checksum.

md5sum obkey.deb | grep e17d96e787b7cdc8363ec04ee5788d2e

# Old Checksums
# v1.3.1 (2018-06-05) 674864f24f536cd6d422708d37ee811f
# v1.3.2 (2019-05-03) e17d96e787b7cdc8363ec04ee5788d2e

sudo apt install python-gi python-gettext
sudo dpkg -i obkey.deb

About KeyBindings

For more informations : see key bindings specification in OpenBox official site

Alternatives :

• obhotkey not updated since 2013... : allows to edit shortcut directly in a command line interface
• lxhotkey : LXDE shortcut editor