Openbox keybindings not taking effect after --reconfigure or restarting X

Question

 273     <keybind key="W-Return">
 274       <action name="Execute">
 275         <command>lxterminal</command>
 276       </action>
 277     </keybind>
 278     <keybind key="W-Up">
 279       <action name="ToggleMaximizeFull"/>
 280     </keybind>
 281     <keybind key="W-Left">
 282       <action name="MoveToEdgeWest"/>
 283     </keybind>
 284     <keybind key="W-Right">
 285       <action name="MoveToEdgeEast"/>
 286     </keybind>

I added these lines in between the default last </keybind> and </keyboard> in my ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml file (the line numbers are from vim). However, neither restarting X nor issuing an openbox --reconfigure applies these settings.

What am I doing wrong? I'm using Arch with all the default LXDE packages.

Solution 1

There is also

$ openbox --restart

Since it was not mentioned yet, I will do it. This will not restart X as well. Presumably --restart is "more powerful" than --reconfigure.

Solution 2

On LXDE ~/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml config is used instead.

To check how openbox was started you can do:

$ ps ax | grep openbox
 2109 ?        S      0:29 openbox --config-file /home/marcin/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml

Comments

[daisy]

Did you receive any error dialog ? If so, the configure xml file is malformed

[jasonwryan]

Pastebin and link to the complete rc.xml - a fragment is not that useful...

[Randall Ma]

That is where it is; I made a typo in the OP.

[pedrosaurio]

Does it work now? If yes, you can mark the answer as the correct one.

[Randall Ma]

Nope. Nevertheless, I've gone ahead and switched to xfwm4, but if this question accumulates more answers I'll go and test them. Thanks for your help.

[golimar]

Does this close the running GUI applications?

[LuxZg]

To answer question in comment, it did not restart my GUI browser on openbox restart.

[Timo]

on lxqt it is lxqt-rc.xml. btw you can either use a or x flag with ps