[openbox] OB3 and autoraise

Dave Swegen dswegen at software.plasmon.com
Fri Sep 26 04:20:48 EDT 2003


On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 02:20:29PM -0400, Ben Jansens wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:58:57AM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote:
> > Quick question: How do I enable autoraise in ob3? Oh, and also set the
> > autoraise delay? 
> 
> Fire up your latest Openbox beta, and check out the bahvior tab in ObConf,
> and you'll see that this has been added. Enjoy. :)

I did, and it's most yummy :)

> 
> > I've looked through the archives (which handily enough doesn't have a
> > search function *grumble grumble*), and the docs page (which looks like
> > it's out of date - what is the canonical place to look for valid tags?).
> 
> out of date?

I might be talking utter garbage (which I often do), but it seemed to me
that the config docs at
http://www.icculus.org/openbox/docs.php?page=details.html&PHPSESSID=f8eb26ab18213caa2a03e8e40dd8983c
don't seem to list all the current keywords. Not that it matters to me
now, as I have my beloved autoraise. So I'm quite content to just go and
sit in a corner hum a little happy tune...

> 
> > Oh, and I presume that I now have to use either the gnome or kde pagers?
> > bbpager doesn't seem to work any longer...
> 
> Openbox does not support the ancient blackbox protocol which tools like
> bbpager relied on. You'll need to use a pager from GNOME, or KDE, or Rox,
> or XCFE, and I'm sure there are others.

I've started playing with them. fbpanel looks pretty reasonable (if not
pretty).

One minor annoynance is that when a menu is open on the desktop, and a
submenu which doesn't fit on the screen is opened, the whole menu
structure jumps up, rather than just the submenu. I find it quite...
distracting.

Now all that is missing is the passing of middle clicks through to the
dock, and I'm a _really_ happy bunny.

Keep up the good work, and many thanks.

Cheers
    Dave




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