[openbox] A couple questions

Ben Jansens ben at orodu.net
Wed Aug 20 12:56:42 EDT 2003


On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:35:33AM -0600, Dale K Dicks wrote:
> 1. is there a way to make Openbox 3 not switch desktops when sending an
> app to another desktop?

Add a <follow>no</follow> to the action.

> 2. why doesn't this keybind work :
> <keybind key="A-k">
>     <action name="execute"><execute>xkill</execute></action>
> </keybind>

For some reason xkill is unable to grab the pointer when run with a
keybinding like this in openbox. Feel free to add this to the bugzilla, as
it would be nice if it worked.

In the meantime you can do something like:
<execute>sh -c 'sleep 1 &amp;&amp; xkill'</execute>

Ben
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