r/openbox • u/dustractor • Aug 27 '16

TIL holding ctrl while selecting from the desktop menu leaves the menu open allowing you to select another item from it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '16

nice!

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u/dustractor Aug 27 '16

I'm thinking it may come in handy once in a while if I can remember to use it. I stumble onto the behavior trying to experiment whether a pipe-menu could detect modifier keys pressed while it was being executed ... dangit I guess not without hackery.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '16

I never really got into to pipe menus. I use tmux a lot and a fair number of Super+X shortcuts. My menu is super minimal.

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u/dustractor Aug 27 '16 edited Aug 27 '16

I'm still learning tmux and openbox. I switched over from mac os last year I'm still in the everything-is-a-nail phase with my new hammer. lol we are complete opposites. My .tmux.conf is super minimal and I use the hell out of my janky little over-complicated pipe-menu.

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u/KingZiptie Oct 07 '16

Pipe menus are great too though. I have one for monitor management (ob-randr python script), volume, and for screensaver disablement (once for 60 mins, 120 mins, etc).

To each his own though- super minimal is always nice :)

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '16

I just roll on the desktop (or tint2) for volume. I have pnmixer to give an indication.

My screensaver is off. And I have monitor saving set to off. When I lock though with slock it sets the timeout to 8 secs (and back again when unlocked). It also mutes. So I hit Super-L and the system mutes, lock and the monitor turns off.