[openbox] Go to a program if it's already running

[Brian Mattern]

There was a thread in Oct. 2011 titled "Launching applications" that
gives various examples of accomplishing this for one specific program
(mutt launched in a terminal).

I'm not sure you could generalize the method easily, however. 

Brian

On Thu, 18 Jul 2013, Antoine wrote:

> Hello!
> I've been an Openbox user for a while now, and it is the best
> interface known to man.
> However, there's something I never managed to do :
> Imagine you have an item in the root menu corresponding to an
> application. If the application has not been launched yet, then run
> it.
> But if the application is already running, just go to the workspace
> where the window is, and raise the window.
> In an ideal world, if there are more than one window, display a
> submenu allowing to choose the wanted one.
> You'll notice that it's the habitual behavior of most "docks", like
> in Unity or even Windows. But it would be awesome to be able to do
> it with Openbox menus.
> Is there currently some hackish way to do this? I believe it would
> be a very useful feature otherwise.
> 
> Cheers,
> Antoine from France
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