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List:       openbox
Subject:    [openbox] ANN: OBHotkey, a command-line tool for setting hotkeys
From:       ericbohlman () sbcglobal ! net (Eric Bohlman)
Date:       2010-05-27 0:42:41
Message-ID: 4BFDC001.7050803 () sbcglobal ! net
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Dave Foster wrote:
> On 5/26/2010 11:27 AM, Eric Bohlman wrote:
>> Yes. OBHotkey has a different aim; it's not intended to be the 
>> obconf/obmenu/obapps of key bindings.
> Why don't you elaborate a little more on this aim; to the layman, the 
> two look quite similar.

OBHotkey is intended to let you define hotkeys "on the fly" and 
potentially do it as part of scripts (e.g. temporarily change key 
bindings for a particular environment). Obkey is more about "take some 
time to set up your preferred key bindings." It is not, AFAIK, usable 
from the command line or a script.

I wouldn't want to use OBHotkey to do the initial setup of key bindings 
  on a new installation. And I wouldn't want to fire up Obkey just to 
add a temporary hotkey for a program I expect to be using a lot in the 
next hour. I could see using both of them for different purposes.

Again, OBHotkey isn't a key-binding editor and was never intended to be 
one.

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