Faq - grave key?

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i’ve gone thru the keybinding docs, etc but i cannot figure out which key is the grave key for US-English keyboards. i see it desribed as the “~” but when it has no effect on activating the drop down option. any ideas?

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The grave accent (`) is under the tilde (~) key on your keyboard

You may check keycode using xev program:

xev

Then press key and you will see informations about it. Here mine:

KeyPress event, serial 48, synthetic NO, window 0x4000001,
    root 0x261, subw 0x0, time 43932460, (795,669), root:(1085,937),
    state 0x10, keycode 49 (keysym 0x60, grave), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (60) "`"
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (60) "`"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 48, synthetic NO, window 0x4000001,
    root 0x261, subw 0x0, time 43932612, (795,669), root:(1085,937),
    state 0x10, keycode 49 (keysym 0x60, grave), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (60) "`"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

Openbox documentation about keybindings: Help:Bindings - Openbox

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