[openbox] What is the <placement><center> option for ?

Jamie Macdonald jamie.alban at gmail.com
Mon Oct 14 18:53:54 EDT 2013


If you mean Arch Build System, and you're on i686 or x86_64, there's a
pkgbuild already in the AUR https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/openbox-git/


On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Antoine
<antoine.vigouroux at numericable.fr>wrote:

>  On 14/10/2013 20:22, Jamie Macdonald wrote:
>
> That feature stopped working when LeastOverlap method was implemented.
>
>  Apparently it's fixed on git master now:
> https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5946
>
>  I haven't tried out the latest build, but maybe you could give it a try
> if you want centered windows.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 3:13 AM, turkuting <turkuting at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> good morning,
>>
>> i've been wondering the same.
>>
>> afaiu the comments in my rc.xml, the correct syntax would be:
>>
>> <placement>
>>     <center>true</center>
>>     <monitor>Active</monitor>
>>     <primaryMonitor>Mouse</primaryMonitor>
>> </placement>
>>
>> (the 3rd and 4th line could be different)
>>
>> i tried variations of the syntax, none returned an error from openbox but
>> neither had it the desired effect (that new windows are placed in the
>> center of the screen.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/13/2013 08:57 PM, Antoine wrote:
>>
>>> Good evening,
>>> there is a <center> option in the rc.conf file, which – according to the
>>> comments – makes the windows appear at the center of the available space
>>> instead of the corner. However, whether I have it enabled or not doesn't
>>> seem to change anything. How is it supposed to be used ?
>>> Thank you,
>>> Ant
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