[openbox] Window overlay on keypress

[Andreas Fink]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 15:55:18 +0100
Ladislav Laska <laska at kam.mff.cuni.cz> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to configure my openbox so that it can show/hide a window based on a 
> keystroke (I have some unused buttons on my kb), but can't figure out how. 
> 
> What I want to do is to crate a windows, that will be invisible in a normal 
> manner (cant alt-tab there, doesn't show in taskbar) and still be able to switch 
> to it with a key combination (press to show, press again to hide). I'd like it 
> to show my /var/log/messages all the time (like 12th text console, but I don't 
> like switching to text mode).
> 
> I browsed the manuals and didn't find anything that would do it. Is it even 
> possible? Does anyone know how to do it?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Best regards Ladislav Láska
> 

Maybe rxvt-unicode (aka urxvt) could help you. It has a perl extension named kuake, which grabs a key and shows/hides the console.
Usage: urxvt -pe kuake'<YOUR_KEY>' 
YOUR_KEY is the name of the key as shown in xev.

Regards
Andreas