[openbox] Forcing Openbox to reconfigure

[Mikael Magnusson]

On 13 May 2010 11:21, Eric Bohlman <ericbohlman at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Why does the following not cause Openbox to reconfigure?
>
> #include  <X11/X.h>
> #include <X11/Xlib.h>
> main () {
>    XEvent ce;
>    Display *display=XOpenDisplay(NULL);
>    int screen=DefaultScreen(display);
>    Window root=RootWindow(display,screen);
>    ce.xclient.type = ClientMessage;
>    ce.xclient.message_type = XInternAtom(display,"_OB_CONTROL",0);
>    ce.xclient.display = display;
>    ce.xclient.window = root;
>    ce.xclient.format = 32;
>    ce.xclient.data.l[0] = 1; /* reconfigure */
>    ce.xclient.data.l[1] = 0;
>    ce.xclient.data.l[2] = 0;
>    ce.xclient.data.l[3] = 0;
>    ce.xclient.data.l[4] = 0;
>    XSendEvent(display,root,0,
>                       SubstructureNotifyMask | SubstructureRedirectMask,
>                       &ce);

XFlush(display);

> }
>
> I get the feeling I must be doing something wrong with the root window,
> since otherwise this was lifted pretty directly from obconf. I've verified
> that _OB_CONTROL already exists as an atom.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson