[openbox] Using openbox for Coding

Israel Jacques mrkotfw at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 00:40:38 EDT 2011


On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 23:46, praveen <praveenin_ece at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thankyou All for your replyes... It was very helpfull...
>
> I have one more question .....
>
> Is it possible to know if a new window is opened in Linux..vi X11?
>

Who do you want to be notified that a window has just been opened? You or
Openbox or your own application?


>   *From:* Dana Jansens <dana at orodu.net>
> *To:* openbox mailing list <openbox at icculus.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, 21 October 2011 10:47 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [openbox] Using openbox for Coding
>
> 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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