[openbox] Two questions...

[Brett Campbell]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 07:57:23PM +0200, Tom wrote:
> Hey ho,
> 
> As a fairly new Openbox users, I have two questions that, ehm, regularly 
> come up.
> 
> First, I have heard about a dock, yet can't seem to use it. In the 
> archives of this list, someone said it should just pop up when it has 
> to (e.g. when running Kopete), but when I run Kopete, nothing shows
> and I get its tray icon in just a new, tiny window. Am I overlooking 
> something obvious?

a flag you need to pass to the application?  some programs will run in
their own little window unless you specify an option to have the dock
"swallow" it.

> Because I do have some dockapps running properly...

then what was all that, "i can't seem to use it" talk? ;)

> Second, I'm not sure if, again, I'm overlooking something, but how would 
> I be able to set the font for the menu title? The site mentions 
> menu.items.font and menu.title.font, but when I adjust the proper 
> values, only the menu items seem to get it right. Even when I set them 
> both to the exact some font and properties, only the items change 
> accordingly... Could anybody give me a clue?
> 
> In any case: thanks a lot for yet another, but definitely one of the 
> best window managers out there!
> 
> Greets,
> Tom

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