[openbox] Move window frame only

Dana Jansens dana at orodu.net
Wed Oct 13 14:10:22 EDT 2010


On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Bruce Hohl <brucehohl at gmail.com> wrote:
> In the rc.xml file the option: <drawContents>no/yes</drawContents>
> is nested under <resize> ... </resize> and does not appear to affect
> window moves.
>
> What other options can be added to rc.xml?
> Perhaps <move> <drawContents>no</drawContents> </move> :)

There's no option for this. There has been previous discussion about
it, possibly here, and also in the bugzilla, which you could look at
and contribute to.

>
>
> On 13 October 2010 04:16, Vlad George <mail at vlad-george.de> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 09:10:05PM -0400, Bruce Hohl wrote:
>>> Hello List, I am using OpenBox (LXDE) from a low bandwidth VNC
>>> session. Moving windows around the desktop with contents is slow and
>>> choppy. Is there a way to set OpenBox such that only the window frame
>> The rc.xml option is:
>> "
>> <drawContents>no/yes</drawContents>
>> "
>>> moves and the contents are refreshed at the end of the move?  I do
>>> have obconf installed. It has a tab called "Move and Resize" which has
>>> a check box for "Update the window contents when resizing". This does
>>> not apply to moving a window which is slow and choppy with a VNC
>>> connection (even with the VNC client set to 256 colors and low
>>> bandwidth connection). The computers are good but the connection is
>>> slow.  Thanks for any comments on this.
>> Huch, I also tried setting this option to "no" - through obconf and rc.xml - but
>> the content is still shown when moving the window.
>> I guess this is not intended...
>>
>> Vlad
>>
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