[openbox] Window overlay on keypress

[Facundo Andrés Bianco]

2010/12/18 Ladislav Laska <laska at kam.mff.cuni.cz>:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to configure my openbox so that it can show/hide a window based on a
> keystroke (I have some unused buttons on my kb), but can't figure out how.
>
> What I want to do is to crate a windows, that will be invisible in a normal
> manner (cant alt-tab there, doesn't show in taskbar) and still be able to switch
> to it with a key combination (press to show, press again to hide). I'd like it
> to show my /var/log/messages all the time (like 12th text console, but I don't
> like switching to text mode).
>
> I browsed the manuals and didn't find anything that would do it. Is it even
> possible? Does anyone know how to do it?
>

Hello, I think you can do it whit wmctrl[0] and xterm, like

$> xterm -title messages -geometry 56x20+612+15 -e "tail -f /var/log/messages"

and

$> wmctrl -a message

Regards,



0. http://tomas.styblo.name/wmctrl/

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