On-key-release keybindings

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Does OpenBox's keybindings facility provide any way to bind an action to
what xev reports as a KeyRelease event, rather than to KeyPress?


I'm experimenting with trying to produce a Linux UI which works as much
as possible like the standard Windows UI. I'm starting out with a base
of LXDE, which uses OpenBox. LXDE includes a Start-menu type of widget,
but does not bind it to the Win key by default.

In Windows XP (not sure about 7 yet), when you press the Win key, the
Start menu does not open immediately; it only opens when the key is
released. This is presumably so that multi-key Win+[other key] bindings
can work, without having the press of the Win key be eaten by the
single-key bind. (Also, this probably helps avoid having the Start menu
open briefly every time you try to use a Win+[other key] shortcut.)

I've successfully bound the Win key (Super_L) to the appropriate LXDE
menu command via the relevant OpenBox XML file; the way to do that is
documented in many places online. However, everything I've tried only
seems to bind it to the KeyPress event. I haven't found any OpenBox- or
LXDE-related discussion of KeyRelease bindings in documentation or
online forums at all.

If there is facility for KeyRelease bindings in OpenBox, I'd like to
learn what it is, so I can use it. If there isn't, I'd like to ask if it
could be added, for a future release. If not, I'll have to fall back on
some non-OpenBox keybindings method to try to get this to work.

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