[openbox] rc.xml: Iconic, Shade

[Paul]

I have told Pidgin to always hide new IM conversations. It initially obeys, but after a short period, new conversation windows pop up on my desktop instead of being hidden. I believe that to be a bug in Pidgin, but I tried to work around it in Openbox by putting this in rc.xml:

         <application class="Pidgin" role="conversation">
             <iconic>yes</iconic>
         </application>

but it did not work. I replaced iconic with <layer>below</layer>, which worked, so I know it's catching it alright. Further, I tried <shade>yes</shade>, which didn't make a difference either. I then tried each of <iconic> and <shade> on another window (the Terminator terminal emulator), and neither worked. Am I doing something wrong?

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