[openbox] W.I.N.E. window focus nightmare!! + other misc

[Chris Anderson]

On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 21:53, Daniel Walpole wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> K I've been reading through the mailing list and found nothing about this, so here it goes...
> 
> In openbox3, when I launch HalfLife in fullscreen through a server browser called 'XQF' (http://www.linuxgames.com/xqf/)
> my keyboard focus does not switch to the game, however the mouse does. I then have to open up another virtual console and 
> kill the wine processes. I hate this problem and it's been me a great inconvenience ever since I switched to openbox3. 
> Is there any way around this? I've tried moving to a new desktop before wine loads up, which does not help, neither does 
> playing around with the focus options in ~/.options/openbox/rc.xml. What can I do! :(
> 
> Also I'm having another problem to do with the 'Execute' action under the openbox menu. Now I am aware that the 
> documentation clearly states the following:
> 
> 	"The tilde ('~') character will be expanded in this string to your home directory, but no other shell expansions or 
> 	scripting syntax can be used in the command."
> 
> I have the following item in my menu:
> -------<snipet>--------
>   <item label="reboot">   
>     <action name="Execute"><execute>su -c "shutdown -r now"</execute></action>
>   </item>
> -------<snipet>--------

Use xterm -e or something like it.

> For some reason openbox3 won't run this. You may be thinking "he still has to type in his password", well
> you're wrong because I have configured some options in /etc/suauth so I don't need to type in the password if I'm a 
> certain user (man suauth if you dont know what I mean). This same option would work in any of the other *box's, so how 
> can I get it to work in openbox!? It makes my life easier by setting up these menu options, no matter how bogus you 
> think they seem.
> 
> 
> Not only is this a problem, but the following item menu (which likes to be run the directory its located in) will not work:
> -------<snipet>--------
>   <item label="wine game">   
>     <action name="Execute"><execute>cd /d/winegame</execute></action>
>     <action name="Execute"><execute>wine game.exe</execute></action>
>   </item>
> -------<snipet>--------
> 

Same as above

> and neither will:
> -------<snipet>--------
>   <item label="wine game">   
>     <action name="Execute"><execute>cd /d/winegame; wine game.exe</execute></action>
>   </item>
> -------<snipet>--------
> 

Again

> Could someone please help me with these problems, any help is always appreciated. I really don't want to change back again.
> 
> 
> 
> PS: Please excuse my english as I'm too lasy to spell check and I don't really care if your offended :)
> PSS: I are not sarcastic just there. :p
>