Re: Pressing keys assigned in openbox opens too many windows in Ubuntu

The alternative is for the launching program (or wrapper) to 'touch' some
time stamp file, and only execute if the time stamp was older than a a few
seconds.

It will not stop the macro repeating, but it will stop multiple windows.
It may be better than playing with keyboard settings.

On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 3:36 PM, D.T. <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 08/06/17 13:36, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 11:59 AM,  <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Is there any way to configure key bindings in openbox so holding down a key
> combination would not open more than one instance of a program? E.g. when I
> have configured to use Shift + Alt + T keys to open a terminal window, if
> holding down the keys too long time, there will be a lot of terminal windows
> open. It should open only one terminal window and if pressing Shift + Alt +
> T again, then it would open a second etc.
>
> http://cgit.mika.l3ib.org/cgit/openbox/patch/?id=ee2db440ed419891ef373584963ea5874b62f4a2
>
> recompiling openbox with patches i probably the best solution.
>
> you can also try to wrap every keyboard shortcut command in a script like
> this:
>
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> xset r off
>
> $@
>
> sleep 3
>
> xset r on
>
> exit 0
>
> where you would pass the complete command you want to execute.
>
> not tested.
>
> likely you are going to have to play with double quotes around the command
> line or "$@" or both to get it right.
>
> you also have to decide what is an acceptable delay before you switch the
> keyboard repeat on again.
>
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