[openbox] Using screen size in key bindings

Kai Großjohann kai at emptydomain.de
Wed Mar 11 18:40:39 EDT 2009


I want the same thing, but some people cope by replacing openbox with a
script that first computes an rc.xml and then starts openbox.

Kai


On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:09:02 -0400
"openbox at jelmail.com" <openbox at jelmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I've just signed up to Openbox and like it so far. I have written
> some key bindings to relocate windows in a similar fashion to the
> windows programs "SplitView" and "Winsplit Revolution". 
> 
> For example I press W+Home and the active window is moved and resized
> so it occupies the top left quadrant of the screen.
> 
> I have done this by hard coding the window size based on the
> dimensions of my screen. I have a 1920x1200 display so my key binding
> resizes the window to a width of 960 and a height of 600.
> 
> Now, what I would like to do is somehow tell openbox to use
> screenwidth/2 and screenheight/2 so moving to a different screen or
> resolution would not require the keybindings to be changed.
> 
> I can't see anything in the documentation to indicate that this is
> supported. If it is then great, but if not would it be the kind of
> thing that might be considered as an enhancement request ?
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
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