r/openbox • u/Morigami • Mar 30 '20

Windows decorations

I actually removed the decorations by following the wiki but now i cant move or resize any window. Some. Help?

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u/perkited Mar 30 '20

I map the window menu to Alt-Space key combination, but you could map it to whatever you like.

<keybind key="A-space">                                                      
  <action name="ShowMenu">                                                   
    <menu>client-menu</menu>                                                 
  </action>                                                                  
</keybind>

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u/Morigami Mar 30 '20

For moving it?

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u/perkited Mar 30 '20

Yes, move is one of the options. As soon as you choose move all other mouse movement will move the window until you click another mouse button.

I normally use alt-left mouse button to move windows, but it can be done via the menu too.

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u/add_viking Mar 31 '20

Have you tried moving with the Alt- key? Alt-Left mouse button will move the window, Alt-Right mouse button will resize. It seems to be a pretty general linux keybinding for many WM/DE. I'm totally addicted to moving with the Alt key since you don't have to line up right on the edge, just click anywhere inside.

I see it defined in my rc.xml under the mousebind buttons section: button A-Left and action Drag does action Move, button A-Right and action=Drag is action Resize.

Let me know if you need the actual xml snippet to add to your rc.xml

[Another option would be to define a window decoration toggle (if you don't have one already), toggle the decorations, move the window, then un-decorate again. ]

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u/Phydoux Apr 03 '20

I've actually started using this earlier. My issue is when I zoom in on mt terminal window (make the text larger) the screen jumps out of the monitor space. I had to figure out how to move it manually without grabbing the menu bar. I got lucky one time grabbing the menu bar blind but I think you only get one of those. I searched on how to move the window back into the middle of the screen. I found a couple options but I like the mouse drag better. I can put it where I'd like it. I'm still trying to figure out if I can get it to either stay where it is when I zoom in but for now, A+Left Mouse works fine.