[openbox] rc.xml: Iconic, Shade

[Dana Jansens]

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Paul <openboxml023478 at rainslide.net> wrote:

> 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?
>

GTK apps like to request "activation" on their windows after mapping.  If
Pidgin and Terminator do this, then it would undo any iconic/shading and
focus the window.  You could run openbox with --debug-focus if you want to
verify that is happening.

- Dana
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