[openbox] Gnome 3 shell

[Johan Vromans]

Johan Vromans <jvromans at squirrel.nl> writes:

> Fedora 15 provides the openbox-gnome package, which integrates openbox
> in the 'modern' GNume environment.

Almost one year later. Fedora 16 is no different en Fedora 17 is almost
ready for release -- most likely no different.

So I re-submit the problem:

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The 'modern' Gnome panel (actually, the Gnome3 fallback panel) is
hardwired to occupy the top and bottom 32 pixels. A window mapped at
0+0 will therefore be obscured for 32 pixels by the top panel.

Is there a way to have openbox exclude these areas?

I tried setting the top and bottom margins:

  <margins>
    <top>32</top>
    <bottom>32</bottom>
    <left>0</left>
    <right>0</right>
  </margins>

but windows mapped to 0+0 will still appear at the real top edge.
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Well, I can set the panels to autohide, which is a start.
But why do the <margins> settings not work?

Best solution would be if these areas were not covered by the Gnome3
shell.

-- Johan