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I am new to the LXDE desktop and I have a .sh file that disables my trackpad .. on other desktop environments I have been able to assign it to a Keyboard Shortcut to toggle it back and forth, but I am not able to find out how to set it as a shortcut on LXDE. I have Obkey installed and see it in the menu .. but it won't open and when I try to open in through Terminal I get this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/obkey", line 40, in <module>
ob.load(path)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/obkey_classes.py", line 1668, in load
self.dom = xml.dom.minidom.parse(path)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1918, in parse
return expatbuilder.parse(file)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 922, in parse
fp = open(file, 'rb')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/dalton/.config/openbox/rc.xml'

I have Python installed and updated to the latest version per Terminal as well so not exactly sure what is going on. I would appreceiate any help getting Obkey working and setting my .sh script on a Keyboard Shortcut.

Thanks so much for your help in this matter

Dalton

Set up an application keybinding in ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml directly. See the second part of the "Keybindings Menus" section of http://lxlinux.com/openbox.html for details for an applications keybinding. Use the path to your shell script as the command.

Set up an application keybinding in ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml directly.

seppalta wrote:Set up an application keybinding in ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml directly. See the second part of the "Keybindings Menus" section of http://lxlinux.com/openbox.html for details for an applications keybinding. Use the path to your shell script as the command.

Thank you for your response ... I was looking through that section you mention in Keybindings Menu's and I believe you are referring to this:

<!--Keybindings for running applications-->

<keybind key="C-A-a">
<action name="Execute">
<startupnotify>
<enabled>true</enabled>
<name>pcmanfm-menu</name>
</startupnotify>
<command>pcmanfm -n menu://applications/</command>
</action>
</keybind>

I was also looking at the openbox folder and I don't have rc.xml .. I have lxde-rc.xml. As for the path to my shell script it is /home/dalton/Documents/Scripts/toggle-touchpad.sh

So if I understand you correctly it would be setup as the following:

<!--Keybindings for running applications-->

<keybind key="C-A-t">
<action name="Execute">
<startupnotify>
<enabled>true</enabled>
<name>toggle-touchpad</name>
</startupnotify>
<command>pcmanfm -n menu://home/dalton/Documents/Scripts/toggle-touchpad.sh/</command>
</action>
</keybind>

Almost got it. Pcmanfm has nothing to do with executing the shell script. The command part should be the following: Test C-A-t first, to be sure it isn't already used. You can use just about any combination that isn't already in use. Also, be sure toggle-touchpad.sh is executable. Just right-click on it and go to Properties>Permissions>Execute and choose anyone.

seppalta wrote:Almost got it. Pcmanfm has nothing to do with executing the shell script. The command part should be the following:

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/home/dalton/Documents/Scripts/toggle-touchpad.sh

Test C-A-t first, to be sure it isn't already used. You can use just about any combination that isn't already in use. Also, be sure toggle-touchpad.sh is executable. Just right-click on it and go to Properties>Permissions>Execute and choose anyone.

Yea I had copied and pasted it and wasn't thinking lol .. thank you so much for your help with this .. got it working!!!

Thank you again so much for your help with this

Dalton