[openbox] Window overlay on keypress

[Ladislav Laska]

Hello,

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 10:20:55AM +0100, Andreas Fink wrote:
> 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.

Good idea, this works just fine. Thanks!

> 
> Regards
> Andreas

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