<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Paul <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:openboxml023478@rainslide.net">openboxml023478@rainslide.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I have told Pidgin to always hide new IM conversations. It initially obeys, but after a short period, new conversation windows pop up on my desktop instead of being hidden. I believe that to be a bug in Pidgin, but I tried to work around it in Openbox by putting this in rc.xml:<br>
<br>
<application class="Pidgin" role="conversation"><br>
<iconic>yes</iconic><br>
</application><br>
<br>
but it did not work. I replaced iconic with <layer>below</layer>, which worked, so I know it's catching it alright. Further, I tried <shade>yes</shade>, which didn't make a difference either. I then tried each of <iconic> and <shade> on another window (the Terminator terminal emulator), and neither worked. Am I doing something wrong?<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>GTK apps like to request "activation" on their windows after mapping. If Pidgin and Terminator do this, then it would undo any iconic/shading and focus the window. You could run openbox with --debug-focus if you want to verify that is happening.</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Dana</div></div>