[openbox] layer in rc.xml not working

[Dana Jansens]

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 9:15 AM, David J. Biesack <David.Biesack at sas.com>wrote:

>
> Openbox 3.5.0.01 on Ubuntu 13.10 with KDE
>
> I run a MS Windows 7 VM in VMware player (in VMware Unity mode).
> I'm trying to configure OpenBox to keep MS Outlook reminder windows on top
> of other windows.
>
> As per http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Applications I'm using the window
> class
> from obxprop:
>
>     # obxprop _OB_APP_TYPE _OB_APP_TITLE _OB_APP_CLASS _OB_APP_NAME
>     _OB_APP_TYPE(UTF8_STRING) = "normal"
>     _OB_APP_TITLE(UTF8_STRING) = "1 Reminder(s) - [vml1599a]"
>     _OB_APP_CLASS(UTF8_STRING) = "Microsoft Outlook"
>     _OB_APP_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = "Microsoft Outlook.VMwareUnityWindow"
>
> I have the following in my ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml
>
>    <applications>
>     <application title="*Reminder*" class="Microsoft Outlook">
>       <decor>no</decor>
>       <layer>above</layer>
>       <focus>no</focus>
>     </application>
>     <application title="xclock">
>       <decor>no</decor>
>       <layer>above</layer>
>     </application>
>   </applications>
>
> I've also tried just
>
>     <application class="Microsoft Outlook">
>
> but the Outlook Reminder windows do *not* layer on top of other normal
> windows,
> whereas the layer config *does* work for xclock.
> (I run `openbox --reconfigure' or restart openbox after editing rc.xml)
>
> Why does Openbox not honor this layer setting for these Reminder windows?
> Is this perhaps a problem with VMWare unity windows?
>

I wouldn't be totally shocked if the unity windows set a bunch of things
and turn off your above request after they appear (given past experiences
with various toolkits). You can run openbox with --debug and view the log
output in ~/.cache/openbox (or stdout) to see what is going on if that
helps.


>
> thanks,
> djb
>
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