HOWTO: Map Keys (to bring up the “Run” dialogue) in Fluxbox?
One of the things that threw me right away with Fluxbox is that some of the shortcuts I had become accustomed to in KDE didn’t work. Most notably, ALT+F4 brought me to the fourth desktop rather than closing the active window and ALT-F2 brought me to the second desktop instead of opening a run dialogue window.
I still haven’t figured out how to map ALT+F4 to close the active window, but I did figure out where this mapping takes place.
In your ~/.fluxbox directory there is a file named keys. Open it up in your favrouite text editor and it will look something like the one displayed above. This one has been modified to bring up the run dialogue when I hit ALT+F2. The command I want is fbrun (FluxBox Run, perhaps?)
By default, the Mod F2 line will have the command to bring me to the third desktop, Workplace 3. Change it to read:
ExecCommand fbrun
and ALT+F2 will now bring up the fbrun dialogue rather than the moving you to desktop 3.
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5 opinions for HOWTO: Map Keys (to bring up the “Run” dialogue) in Fluxbox?
Geoff
Oct 27, 2005 at 8:38 am
To make Alt + F4 close the current window, add the following to ~/.fluxbox:
Mod1 4 :CloseFluxbox Keys
Looking at their example and then yours, I’m thinking they probably made a typo (should be f4 instead of just 4 — although maybe they really wanted to say Alt + 4). I’ll let you see which works (I won’t be able to install it until later tonight).
Geoff
Oct 27, 2005 at 8:43 am
Here’s an even better source of key binding know-how — straight from the developers themselves!
Fluxbox key bindings
Jon
Oct 27, 2005 at 8:50 am
Aha! Wicked, Geoof - thanks for the links. I’ve added both of them to my Linux de.lirio.us tags which means they’ll be available for the GNU/Linux show listeners.
This is great…I’ve been playing with Fluxbox each day and getting it a little more functional for me. I had no idea the key binding could do so much.
New toy!!
Hari
Jan 3, 2006 at 5:52 pm
no, it was supposed to be 4 not F4, this is not windows… you wouldn’t want to change predefined behaviour cos you’d be lost when you came to another flux…
Jon
Jan 3, 2006 at 6:00 pm
Hari: What? I don’t understand what you’re saying…
My screenshot shows that Mod1 F2 will bring up fbrun (which is does..or did, I don’t run Fluxbox anymore). Therefore, Mod1 F4: Close will close the window, no?
Wouldn’t Mod1 4 be an alt-4 instead of an alt-f4?
Confuzzled…..
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