Re: [Lxde-list] Global keyboard shortcuts in LXDE.

[Stephan S. <gma...@sp...>]

For portability's sake, I write all my apps to bind their own global 
hotkeys using XGrabKey(). (Which means all my PyGTK apps also depend on 
python-xlib or XPyB and, on Windows, fall back to not supporting global 
hotkeys)

It would be nice to see a unified keybinding daemon to complement the 
unified notification daemon but, until there's a 
freedesktop.org-standard D-Bus API that lets a single hotkey daemon be 
shared between KDE, GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE apps, I just don't see this 
idea being anything more than yet another DE-specific process wasting 
resources.

...especially given that Openbox can already do global hotkey binding 
for functions that don't map directly to a KDE, GNOME, or XGrabKey-using 
application.

On 12-07-18 05:56 PM, Andrej N. Gritsenko wrote:
>      Hello there!
>
>      As number of applications in LXDE grows I think it's time to make the
> feature every other DE has - global key mapping - so every application
> can have the same keyboard shortcuts. For example, 'F11' for 'fullscreen'
> or 'Ctrl+A' for 'Select all'. It can be saved in .config/lxde/shortcuts,
> edited by some tool and retrieved by some library on application start so
> application will not have own mapping hardcoded and unchangeable. And, of
> course, each application can register own keys there so they are editable
> with the same tool. To do so there should be a /usr/share/lxde/shortcuts
> directory with defaults: 'global' and named after applications. It's easy
> and convenient.
>      What is your opinions?
>
>      Andriy.
>
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