Creating a very useful (for me) keyboard shortcut on Linux LXDE/Openbox

Just open this file

~/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml



Find a suitable section to introduce this


<!-- open new window and search whatever is on clipboar/selection -->
    <keybind key="C-numbersign">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>/bin/bash -c '/opt/waterfox/waterfox --new-window "https://www.google.com/search?q=`xclip -o -selection primary`"'</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>


I tried

#waterfox --search  blah blah ...

but it wasn't working (opening window but not searching) that's why I added the search term to the url.


I normally have the right hand over the arrow keys, so I like to have shortcuts on that area.

This one is  Ctrl+#  (being # the key on the left of Enter)



After saving the file run

# openbox-lxde --reconfigure


And you are done!

I really love it. Whether something is just selected OR copied to clipboard, it will search for it on a new browser window.


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I have another to quickly close the main window.


<!-- AltGr+Up to close the window (like Alt+F4) -->
    <keybind key="mod5-Up">
      <action name="Close"/>
    </keybind>