[openbox] Using openbox for Coding

Dana Jansens dana at orodu.net
Fri Oct 21 13:17:21 EDT 2011


On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Andreas Fink
<andreas.fink85 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:26:12 -0400
> Dana Jansens <dana at orodu.net> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:20 AM, Andreas Fink
>> <andreas.fink85 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > You do not need the openbox libraries for that.
>> > If you want to do it in a C/C++ program you need the Xlib.
>> > If you want to do it from commandline there are already some programs out
>> > there, for instance wmctrl can do what you are asking for.
>> > Cheers
>> > Andreas
>>
>> Correct, but if you do want to for whatever, you can use -lobt.  I'd
>> recommend static linking it if you're not going to keep it up to date
>> with API changes.
> How stable is the API? Do you actually care about API/ABI compatibility?

We don't put a lot of thought into it, and expect stuff that use it to
be recompiled for a new release.


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