[openbox] Launching applications

[Jorge Almeida]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Anthony Thyssen
<A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 08:34:03 +0100
> Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida at gmail.com> wrote:
> | On another note, what about the possibility of killing a window when it
> | gets hidden, that I mentioned in another thread? Do you have any idea,
> | or maybe it just can't be done?
> |
> No not really.  Not unless it becomes a action in the window manager.
>
> However you need to define what you mean by hidden!

I mean so hidden that you can't click to raise it without moving other
windows.

>   Partially obscured windows are VERY common.
>   What if the user switches to another desktop?

That would not count as hidden, but might, if convenient.

>   or the window gets moved partly or even fully of screen?
>   Unmapped or Iconified  (this is actually much easier to detect)
>
> However really I don't have a solution for you, other than some
> dedicated "window monitor" that watches the window.

I suspected it would not be possible. As I said, this was to be used
with a small script I posted ("clock"), so it's by no means a priority.
But it would be cool.

Thanks

Jorge Almeida