post your rc.xml tweaks for openbox. (Page 2 of 3)

i deleted a lot of shortcuts that i found useless / confusing and i added my own, namely
volume up/down/mute
i modified W-f from thunar to thunar /home (since i have multiple parittions mounted in /home)
i binded utorrent to W-u
gftp to W-g
geany to W-y
rhythmbox to W-r
i changed W-t to konsole
minitube W-b
icedove to W-e
vlc to W-v
catfish to W-s
calculator to W-c
and i don't have a right click menu, my menu.xml is totally empty and i'm lovin it

Is that possible?! I can make them the same color as the background but I know they are there...

Ha! Of course I forgot to check the configuration manager Where is the configuration file for these options? Would it be possible to get rid of the whole title bar? (not that I need that now... this looks cool as hell without the label or buttons, minimized as small as it was possible on the GUI)

This is really amazing Anthony...but it doesn't work on me...is there something I should install? It opens firefox in google start page which I think it means it can't take the selected text from xselection. I search for a package with that name but as I understood it's "inside" X tools.

Any thoughts?

So far, I found that "xselection" is the xsel package which I installed it but nothing happen. In order to make it work using only my complete ignorance in any programming language I change those lines:

G_IMAGE="http://www.google.com/images?num=250\&safe=off\&imgsafe=off"

G_SEARCH='\&hl=en\&q='

WP_SEARCH="Special:Search?submit=go\&search="

# what is the URL to use (get from X selection)
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
    url=`xsel -p|perl -pe 'tr/ /+/' |sed 's/^[     ]*//; s/[ >:::]*$//' | tr ' ' '+'`
else
  url="$1"
fi

I only checked google search and goto-URL features. I guess the other options will work too.

I found the `xsel -p etc etc` here.

I thought we could have a little topic where we could post our keybindings, as I'm sure at least some of you have some awesome combo's.

I'm mostly looking for new ways to control my windows using the keyboard, for when my mice isn't around.

Here's my rc.xml file concerning window management:

  <!-- Keybindings for window switching -->
    <keybind key="A-F1">
      <action name="NextWindow"/>
    </keybind>
    <!-- Keybindings for windows -->
    <keybind key="A-F2">
      <action name="Iconify"/>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="A-F3">
      <action name="ToggleMaximizeFull"/>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="A-F4">
      <action name="Close"/>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="A-F5">
      <action name="MoveToEdgeNorth"/>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="A-F6">
      <action name="MoveToEdgeSouth"/>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="A-F7">
      <action name="MoveToEdgeWest"/>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="A-F8">
      <action name="MoveToEdgeEast"/>
    </keybind>

That's ok with me. Thought I should create a new one, since mine was about WM specifically, but this should work too

I do something similar to this individual.  I resize my Terminator by dragging the window, and split the screen how I want it, then save it as a "layout" under preferences.

Then I can just do:

 <command>terminator -l "name of layout"</command> 

That way I don't have to mess with the geometry tag or any other commands to make the screen split.

(By the way - this would make a good sticky thread, in my opinion).

Last edited by yorick (2011-01-23 12:39:04)

Try using:

<application class="Firefox*"
      <decor>no</decor>

Also I typed Firefox on purpose; try it and see if it works.

As for fullscreen, I don't think there an application rule to do that automatically.

why don't you use obxprop? I think it ships with openbox now (if not use plain old xprop) and it'll tell you the class, name, etc. of the window. and to maximize windows (not exactly full-screen) you use <maximized>yes</maximized>. Hope this helps!

Great tip thanks I didn't know about obxprop thats a great program.

Here's the info that obxprop gave me

WM_CLASS(STRING) = "Navigator", "Iceweasel"
WM_ICON_NAME(STRING) = "Get Iceweasel! - Iceweasel"
_NET_WM_ICON_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = "Get Iceweasel! - Iceweasel"

So if I wanted to replace the class="Firefox*" with the correct string would I use name="Get Iceweasel! - Iceweasel"

Last edited by becker (2011-03-21 18:35:08)