[openbox] layer in rc.xml not working

[Dana Jansens]

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Dana Jansens <danakj at orodu.net> wrote:

> 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.
>

Have you tried setting other properties and see if they work? And what
happens if you set on-top manually?


>
>
>>
>> thanks,
>> djb
>>
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>> David J. Biesack | Principal API Architect, SAS | @davidbiesack |
>> 919-531-7771 | www.sas.com
>>
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