[openbox] a happy new openbox user

Lionel Peyron lionel.peyron at laposte.net
Sun Apr 11 05:28:28 EDT 2004


Louis-David Mitterrand a écrit :

>On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 12:00:13PM +0200, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
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>>On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
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>>>Here a few questions I have gathered in a month or so of daily use:
>>>
>>>- xmms cannot be parked under the dock: for instance if the dock is
>>>  upper-left vertical, the one cannot align xmms right under it, along
>>>  the left window edge,
>>>      
>>>
>>Try using openbox for moving it, by default, alt-mouse1 moves windows but 
>>you can of course change that.
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>It works.
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>>>- the dock stays visible when mplayer is full screen, even if "above or
>>>  below other windows" is selected,
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>>put this in ~/.mplayer/config (if i recall correctly)
>>fs = -above,fullscreen
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>Actually it is:
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>fstype = -above,fullscreen
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>"man mplayer" has some details (shoulda checked!).
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>>>- is there a setting (I searched the docs) that would open windows along
>>>  the upper right side of the screen? 
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>>No, that seems like a very weird preference. Also, the upper right of a 
>>screen is a corner, not an edge :)
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>No so weird if you run xrootconsole from the northwest corner and don't
>want your windows to hide its output.
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>>>Thanks,
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>>You're welcome
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>Thanks again. I have another question: how would you write your
>.xsession to have on startup two rxvt's on the first workspace, mozilla
>on the second and two more rxvt's on the third? How can one launch
>programs on differents workspaces?
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>Cheers,
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Hi from another happy openbox user !

To launch programs on differents workspaces, I think Devil's Pie 
[http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie] may be the answer; 
but it's not really easy to configure :| The doc is so ... missing.

Good luck anyway.




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