[openbox] Another new-user question...

[Delcides F. Sousa Jr]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:35 AM, David Feldman<wb0gaz at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you everyone for help on my "drifting window" question for xv.
>
> I have one other new-user question, and this is probably not openbox
> specific, but maybe has a general solution:
>
> Is it possible to have an application (or set of applications, under a
> common name) open their windows directly to the root window, rather than be
> subject to window manager decorations and controls? For example, if I use
> *no* window manager and open several xterms, they fix themselves wherever
> the application opened, but there is no decorations to move, resize, close,
> etc.. Now, I would like to open some applications this way, while others are
> opened with openbox window manager controls incorporated. Hope this makes
> sense.
>
> Thank you again,
>
> Dave
>

    You can make Openbox not draw decorations ( titlebar and borders)
for specific apps. Look for the <applications> section on rc.xml and
<decor> tag.

Delcides.