[openbox] feature suggestion

Alexey Korop akorop at gmail.com
Tue Oct 4 17:14:18 EDT 2011


Dana Jansens wrote on 04.10.2011 19:50:
>        By the way, the openbox --restart in my system leads to a strange
>     problem. The window of the Conky, which until then had been below
>     all windows, after the --restart become above all windows. Conky
>     configuration contains the following lines:
>
>     own_window yes
>     own_window_transparent no
>     own_window_type override
>     own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip___taskbar,skip_pager
>
>     (This config is suitable fo run Conky under Gnome)
>
>        I decide this problem by restarting conky after openbox restart,
>     but I wonder what's going on?
>
>
> Override windows are outside of control.  We stack all our windows
> relative to some window that we create, and we put this window at the
> bottom of the stack order, which makes any override window above all the
> openbox windows.  This choice was made because most override windows are
> used for things like tooltips that should be on top.
     Thank You! "own_window_type normal" works perfectly under both 
Gnome and openbox (in particular, after openbox --restart).

     Yours truly Alexey


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