[openbox] Per application settings

[Israel Jacques]

Thank you.

It seems really hacky, but I asked for it!

In the meantime, I'll use this but I'm going to file a bug report and
hope that the developers at Inkscape can fix this. Or I can just do it
myself.

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 22:07, Anthony Thyssen
<A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:55:20 -0700
> Israel Jacques <mrkotfw at gmail.com> wrote:
> | Hello everyone,
> |
> | I have the following:
> |
> | <application class="Inkscape" type="normal">
> |   <desktop>5</desktop>
> |   <layer>below</layer>
> |   <decor>no</decor>
> |   <position force="yes">
> |     <x>center</x>
> |     <y>center</y>
> |   </position>
> |   <maximized>yes</maximized>
> | </application>
> | <application class="Inkscape" type="dialog">
> |   <desktop>5</desktop>
> |   <layer>above</layer>
> |   <decor>yes</decor>
> |   <position force="yes">
> |     <x>center</x>
> |     <y>center</y>
> |   </position>
> | </application>
> |
> | Which works fine. However, I've noticed that all dialogs are
> | full-screen. Using obxprop/xprop I see the following on the so-called
> | "dialog":
> |
> | _OB_APP_TYPE(UTF8_STRING) = "normal"
> | _OB_APP_TITLE(UTF8_STRING) = "Export Bitmap (Shift+Ctrl+E)"
> | _OB_APP_CLASS(UTF8_STRING) = "Inkscape"
> | _OB_APP_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = "inkscape"
> | _OB_APP_ROLE(UTF8_STRING) =
> |
> | It just so happens that ALL the "dialog windows" have a type of
> | "normal". Is there a way to mitigate this? Is there a way to
> | differentiate these windows from the actual normal window or will I
> | have to actually tell Inkscape to fix this "bug"?
> |
>
> As a suggestion, you are only wanting the first main window maximized.
> So I suggest you write a wrapper script to start the application
> locate that first window, and maximise it.  That is do it as
> a start up proceedure, rather than as a per-applicaiton proceedure.
>
> The other parts of per-application setup of openbox can remain as is.
>
> The "xdotool" or "xwit" (and others) can be used for the maximize
> so you just need a program (or script) to wait for that first window
> to appear.
>
> A script "xwin_find" can do that.  Waiting dor up to a given timeout
> and returning the windows ID that was found when it appears
>  http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/anthony/software/#xwin_find
>
> An example usage is in the scripts comments.
>
>
>
>  Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer )    <A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au>
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