[openbox] Can I have the root menu always open in the center of the screen?

Sébastien ml at terranean.eu
Wed Jan 22 04:30:34 EST 2014


Le 2014-01-22 à 11:42, Augustine Souza a écrit:
> I'm using Openbox 3.5.2.
> 
> With
>     <keybind key="W-space">
>       <action name="ShowMenu">
>         <menu>root-menu</menu>
>       </action>
>     </keybind>
> 
> I can have the root menu appear but it appears where the mouse cursor
> happens to be even if the cursor is in a focused window.
> 
> Is it possible to have the root menu always appear in the center of
> the screen?
> 
> (I'm currently using xdotool in a script to do a "mousemove" and
> "click 3" to always open root menu in a fixed position but that
> position has to be in a blank area of the desktop.)

I don't know any "Openbox way" to do it but instead of emulating a
mouse click you can just use the keybind, and then no empty space is
needed:

$ xdotool mousemove --polar 0 0 key Super_L+space





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