[openbox] Wish list

[Mikael Magnusson]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Ed Murphy wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:47:35 -0700, Ed Murphy <emurphy42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:01:01 -0700, Marc Wilson <msw at cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 10:40:04PM -0700, Ed Murphy wrote:
>>
>>>> 1) Ability to resize a window by click-dragging an edge.  If you drag the
>>>>    top or bottom edge, then only the height may change; if you drag the
>>>>    left or right edge, then only the width may change.  Click-dragging a
>>>>    corner would continue to behave the way it currently does.
>>
>>> Ah.  You mean the ability it already has, then.  Amazing how people will
>>> never bother to review documentation.
>>
>> I _have_ reviewed the documentation, specifically
>> http://icculus.org/openbox/docs.php?page=details.html#mousebindings
>> but I haven't seen it.  Could you please explain what I've overlooked?
>
> Followup:  Okay, alt+middleclick+drag allows you to resize in
> eight directions (NW N NE W E SW S SE) by clicking pretty
> much anywhere in the window.  What I'm looking for, though,
> is for leftclick+drag on an edge to resize (N W E S) while
> leftclick elsewhere behaves normally.  (I tried binding Frame +
> Left = Resize, but that catches clicks that it shouldn't, e.g.
> clicks on the Close button.)
>
> If there's a way to implement this by editing rc.xml, then I'd
> appreciate some pointers.

As you may have noticed, there are no window borders in Openbox besides 
the little 1-pixel thingy, so no, you can't. Clicks on those borders are 
only registered as Frame, and as you noticed, binds in the Frame context 
have effect on the entire window, client area included.

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Mikael Magnusson