[openbox] What is the <placement><center> option for ?

Antoine antoine.vigouroux at numericable.fr
Mon Oct 14 17:08:54 EDT 2013


On 14/10/2013 20:22, Jamie Macdonald wrote:
> That feature stopped working when LeastOverlap method was implemented.
>
> Apparently it's fixed on git master now: 
> https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5946
>
> I haven't tried out the latest build, but maybe you could give it a 
> try if you want centered windows.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 3:13 AM, turkuting <turkuting at gmail.com 
> <mailto:turkuting at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     good morning,
>
>     i've been wondering the same.
>
>     afaiu the comments in my rc.xml, the correct syntax would be:
>
>     <placement>
>         <center>true</center>
>         <monitor>Active</monitor>
>         <primaryMonitor>Mouse</primaryMonitor>
>     </placement>
>
>     (the 3rd and 4th line could be different)
>
>     i tried variations of the syntax, none returned an error from
>     openbox but neither had it the desired effect (that new windows
>     are placed in the center of the screen.
>
>
>
>     On 10/13/2013 08:57 PM, Antoine wrote:
>
>         Good evening,
>         there is a <center> option in the rc.conf file, which --
>         according to the
>         comments -- makes the windows appear at the center of the
>         available space
>         instead of the corner. However, whether I have it enabled or
>         not doesn't
>         seem to change anything. How is it supposed to be used ?
>         Thank you,
>         Ant
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Thank you. Finally an occasion to learn how to use that A.B.S. !
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