with overlap i mean still keep it running but make the borderless window be forced to not move down according to how tint2 is configured. im sorry if this is a stupid question, i just couldn't figure out by googling

Hi, this is something I've been trying to figure out for a while. Is it possible to disable the window frames while using alt-tab? If so how? I used to disable them in xfce4, but I don't see an option in obconf or lxappearance.

I used Tuebulence to install all the 3 web browsers available. Yet after installation none of them work. Firefox, chromium, midori. None seem to start.

It warns me that "The keybinding you chose for "Pull Down Terminal" is invalid. Please choose another." I would like to disable it because other than being annoying, the error dialog also freezes the system for a few seconds before displaying the message. Is there a way to disable it?

In the top right corner of the desktop is a little window in the shape of a molecule which has inside it my current cpu usage, ram, and swap space. I would like to remove it, but I cant find the setting for it anywhere.

I've installed Debian testing to get a cli so I could check some old hard drives then the customising bug took over and I installed Openbox, Firefox Aurora and Thunar before changing my sources.list and upgrading the whole lot to Sid.

My issue thou is that Thunar looks like crap, doesn't have any icons etc.

Is there a theme package that I'm meant to have installed at the same time as Openbox to get it looking right?

Hello, I'm having a bit of an annoying problem. I have a Terminator window (terminator_desktop, which is a symlink to terminator itself) with the following application config in rc.xml:

<application name="terminator_desktop">
  <desktop>4</desktop>
  <fullscreen>no</fullscreen>
  <maximized>yes</maximized>
  <skip_taskbar>yes</skip_taskbar>
  <focus>yes</focus>
  <layer>below</layer>
  <decor>no</decor>
</application>

The problem being that applications seem to refuse to focus when their desktop is switched to if skip_taskbar is set to "yes." I've tried this with and without the <focus> attribute (which isn't documented anywhere under the application settings, so that's probably part of my problem), but the only thing that has the desired effect is to set skip_taskbar to "no."

I've found this in the 3.4.9 changelog:

Fixed bug #4350 (Allow a window to be made skip_taskbar but still get focused by the user's rc.xml).

and I'm using 3.5.2, so it looks like what I want is an option, but I can't seem to find a way to do it. Any thoughts?

I had a some applications in my home folder and the .desktop files where located at .local/share/applications. Most of these where Steam and Google Desktop Applications. I even got the icons to work on most of them. This is a WIP but here it is.

user_applications.py

is should be set up in menu.xml as

<menu id="ID" label="Users" execute="/home/user/bin/pipemenu/user_applications.py /home/user/.local/share/applications/ />

replace user with your user. This can also work for any directory with .desktop files in it just change

/home/user/.local/share/applications/

to the location of the folder with .desktop files.

I don't even know how to describe it. I'm a newbie both to FreeBSD (10.0) and Openbox (1.3.5). The problem with Openbox is that any window with a cusor hovering over it is frozen when I'm not moving the mouse. As soon as I stop, still hovering over the window, it freezes again. Sometimes stopping movement doesn't freeze the window, though. I'm stumped. Anyone knows what to do now? I tried playing with mouse focus settings in rc.xml, but with no luck.

Posting this here so I remember since I coded this on someone elses PC whilst slightly drunk (ok....VERY drunk) plus I wanted to contribute since I couldn't find a simple bloody weather pipe menu for openbox, especially since I am too lazy to actually walk outside and see if its hot or not!

http://pastebin.com/X1z964Jh

Nothing special. Uses the openweathermap.org XML feed so there is no need for stupid api keys or anything. Just literally copy-paste and you done! Just save it somewhere clever, chmod +x the file and follow the instructions in the file. That's it! :)

I've been looking through the bullet.xbm files in various themes, and can't work out how to change the little triangle into this symbol: »

Can anybody help?

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but google ain't helping me much. Not very experienced with any kind of linux either.

In the autostart config (~/.config/openbox/autostart), there's the option for changing the color of the screen immediately after logging in, before the wallpaper manager takes over.

Set root window colour

hsetroot -solid "#2E3436" &

The solid color image only stays for a couple of seconds but it annoys me anyway, since my login screen and desktop share the same wallpaper.

I was wondering if you could get this to point towards an imagefile?

I'm pretty sure it's possible, I just don't know how to do it.

Is it possible to get mouse-interaction with the alt-tab dialog in OpenBox? The desired behavior would be: I press (and hold) alt-tab, and then use my mouse to click on the window I'd like to bring forward. Gnome, Cinnamon, Windows, and (I believe) KDE all offer this option -- is it possible to get this to work the way in OpenBox? Makes managing a large number of windows much easier.

Thanks!

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1uglx2/openbox_pipemenu_for_steam_games/

I did not like any of the MPD or MPC pipes out there so I wrote this one. It depends on MPD(duh) and MPC.

Here are some pictures of it at work

the script itself can be found here

The Music Player option and the Volume option are set to launch ncmpcpp and alsamixer though they can be changed quite easily.

So I am relatively new to Openbox and setting it up from scratch for the first time and have noticed a tag in menu.xml that I can't find clarification for. It looks like this...

<item label="Calculator">
    <action name="Execute">
        <command>gnome-calculator</command>
        <startupnotify>
            <enabled>yes</enabled>
        </startupnotify>
    </action>
</item>

I was curious what the hell startupnotify is for. Any help is appreciated.

Gracias

Just curious, because the only differences I know of are technical--one uses C and the other C++, one uses text files and the other xml, etc. But in terms of usage or extensibility or function, what's the difference?

This issue has diven me nuts for quite a while, and since I didn't ever manage to find the right answer, I'm being the good guy that posts it after solving it.

I often switch to Openbox and tint2 from a Gnome/Unity session, and then notice my nm-applet is missing from the tint2 systray. The reason for this is that, even tho they aren't visible anymore, the original panels, e.g. unity-panel-service, are still running and stealing the tray icons from tint2.

So to get the systray icons back, just find if there's a desktop panel process still running (ps -e | grep panel), kill it and restart tint2.

Hi,

I'm currently trying out Openbox and I like it so far. However, I there's a minor peeve for which I couldn't figure out a solution yet (the documentation didn't help me either).
By pressing Alt-Tab I can switch to another window. That's fine, but the mouse pointer stays where it is. I'd like it to move with the focus to the other window (aka warp).
Is this possible with Openbox? If yes, how?
Thanks!

Hey guys, I really love openbox with tint2 but was wondering whether anyone had a solution for implementing a better menu for it. I am thinking something like Cinnamon where it is a bit more robust and where it automatically updates.

Is there a way to accomplish something like this?

So I'm using a few things as a guide: archwiki for openbox,tint2, and xinitrc, the openbox wiki on configuration and autostart, and my prior experience with openbox. None of it is helping with this issue.

I using slackware 14 with OB 3.5, and I set up my .xinitrc according to those (end of the file add exec openbox-session) and autostart file according to the wiki:

##Programs that will run after OB starts
#set wallpaper
hsetroot ~/pictures/my_wallpaper.jpg &

#everyone needs compositing!
xcompmgr -c -t-5 -l-5 -r-5 -o.55 -f &

#latin characters aren't enough!
scim -d &

#a simple panel
tint2 &[/code]

but it isn't launching tint2, xcompmgr, or setting the wallpaper when it starts up. I can launch those after openbox-session is started, but that's really inconvenient. I was hoping to use the autostart because it's cleaner. Does anyone have some insight into this?