[openbox] display geometry when resizing with keyboard

[Michael M. Moore]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Dana Jansens <danakj at orodu.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2009/2/17 Michael M. Moore <michael at writemoore.net>
>>
>> After a long and now regretted layoff, I'm back to using Openbox,
>> which seems better than ever.
>>
>> My question is about one thing I miss from Metacity, which is the
>> display of a window's geometry when using the keyboard to resize a
>> window.  In Metacity, ALT+F8 allows you to use the arrow keys to
>> resize a window left, right, up or down.  I made some keychains in
>> Openbox to mimic this behavior, like so:
>>
>>    <keybind key="A-F8">
>>      <keybind key="Left">
>>        <action name="ResizeRelative">
>>          <left>10</left>
>>        </action>
>>      </keybind>
>>      <keybind key="Right">
>>        <action name="ResizeRelative">
>>          <right>10</right>
>>        </action>
>>      </keybind>
>>      <keybind key="Up">
>>        <action name="ResizeRelative">
>>          <top>10</top>
>>        </action>
>>      </keybind>
>>      <keybind key="Down">
>>        <action name="ResizeRelative">
>>          <bottom>10</bottom>
>>
>> This works, except I don't get the geometry display and I don't know
>> how to enable it.  I get the geometry when I use the mouse to resize
>> the window (by grabbing a corner and dragging).  Is it possible to get
>> the geometry when resizing with the keyboard, or are keychains not the
>> best method to use to accomplish keyboard-driven window resizing?
>> (I'm not wedded to the A-F8-arrow method, I just set it up that way
>> because it's what I was used to.)
>
> I think you are probably looking for these actions to bind to keys.
> They are also available from the client (titlebar) menu.
>
> http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Help:Actions#Move
> http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Help:Actions#Resize
>
> You can use shift/control/alt modifiers to change how the window is
> being moved/resized with the keyboard. I forget specific combinations
> and they don't seem to be written down in the wiki right now.

Ah, yes ... "Resize" is the action I should use, not "ResizeRelative".
 I somehow hit on the latter and thought that was the correct option;
failed to notice the former.

Thanks!

Michael M.

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