[openbox] Using openbox for Coding

[Mikael Magnusson]

On 25 October 2011 23:36, Simon Clubley <simon.clubley at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 25 October 2011 17:40, Simon Clubley <simon.clubley at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 25 October 2011 13:11, praveen <praveenin_ece at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> i like to inform to my own application that a new window is opened..... this
>>> application will act as a Taskbar....
>>>
>>
>> Look at the source code for the taskbar plugin in fbpanel for a
>> example of how to do this.
>>
>
> I've had another look at this (I was interested myself) and it turns
> out that although the raw X events are been processed by fbpanel, they
> are been sent to fbpanel by the GDK abstraction layer instead of the
> raw X11 API.
>
> If you use GTK in your taskbar application, you can obviously still
> use this approach, but if you are coding to the X11 API directly, you
> will probably need to look elsewhere.

http://git.icculus.org/?p=mikachu/rspanel.git;a=blob;f=rspanel.c;hb=HEAD
This is likely to be the simplest panel using only Xlib that you can
find. (See also the other files (but not gui.c), but that one has most
of the actual interesting stuff.)

-- 
Mikael Magnusson