[openbox] make the root-menu appear at a fixed location when opening it with a keyboard shortcut, possible?

[Mikael Magnusson]

On 6 October 2014 07:43, TT <turkuting at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>>
>> On 3 October 2014 22:58, Micha <maria.huana at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi folks !
>>> I don't know, how to step into an active subject, hope this will appear
>>> where it belongs to.:-[
>>> When I first read the posts of this topic, I wouldn't believe, that there
>>> is
>>> any problem achieving such behaviour.
>>> But then I realized, there are two different actions involved:
>>> 1.: Setting the pointer ( with Xdotool )
>>> 2.: Calling the root-menu
>>
>> You guys know openbox is open source right? There's no need for these
>> awful hacks proliferating, you can just add a parameter to the
>> showmenu action.
>
> You mean like this? =>
>       <mousebind action="Press" button="Right">
>         <action name="ShowMenu">
>           <menu>root-menu</menu>
>           <position force="yes">
>             <x>100</x>
>             <y>100</y>
>           </position>
>         </action>
>       </mousebind>
> For a moment i thought, wow, could it be that simple...
> but unfortunately it doesn't work that way.
> the actual current position of the mouse pointer takes precedence.
>
> but in a way i agree --
> why does one need to create hacks to have the root menu at a certain
> position?
>  -- i think this is rather a case of adjusting your habits.

I mean that, and write the code, and send the patch here. :)

-- 
Mikael Magnusson