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Topic: Key Board Control, Is it 100% possible

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sankarv

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Posted: June 21 2006,10:50

Can we fully control Flux Box / JWM with keyboard. If so how??

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Someone

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Posted: June 21 2006,12:10

If i remember correctly, Fluxbox has somekind of an shortcut feature, surf to fluxbox site and try to find some information about it. If you find fluxbox too difficult, then i recommend to install rox, never used it with dsl but with other distros, it's very good and easy to use.

mikshaw

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Posted: June 21 2006,14:33

The fluxbox 0.1.14 version in DSL is almost fully controllable through the keyboard, but there are a few things, such as the root menu, that need the mouse. Fluxbox 0.9.x myDSL extensions are, to my knowledge, 100% keyboard friendly. You'll need to manually configure it by adding keybinds to the /home/dsl/.fluxbox/keys file.
http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docbook/en/html/c289.html
[some commands listed at that link do not work with flux 0.1.14]
JWM can also be keyboard-controlled, though i don't know from experience what limitations it has.

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sankarv

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Posted: June 22 2006,04:43

I dint understand much of it. Please tell me how can i set keys for fluxbox menu and opening applications from it .

Also how will we control keyboard in JWM.

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mikshaw

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Posted: June 22 2006,05:30

As I said, the fluxbox menu in fluxbox 0.1.14 (the version in DSL) cannot be controlled with keys, which is one of only a few problems with keyboard control in that version. In flux devel versions, all you need to do is set a keybind for "rootmenu"
add <modifier> <key> :RootMenu to the fluxbox keys file and navigation is controlled by arrow keys.
Opening applications is done in the same file. The syntax is
<modifier> <key> :ExecCommand <command>
If your key combo is a single key without modifiers, use "NONE" as the modifier.
An example, using Alt+a to open aterm:

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Mod1 A ExecCommand aterm -T "this is aterm from a keybind"

I really don't know much about jwm, so i can't help there.

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