[openbox] Quake-like-console configuration: problem with ForEach action

[Martin Jiřička]

Hello!

I installed Openbox for the first time a few days ago. I was really
impressed how well a configuration process went. But in the end I had
a following problem.

I tried to configure a terminal window to act as something that was
somewhere called quake-like-console (i.e. an "adhoc" terminal that
appears after hitting some key above all windows and is available on
all desktops). I have already found some solution using external bash
script, but I think that following implementation would be more
elegant and maybe even more practical.

My idea is to start a terminal (urxvt in my case) with some special
title (like "quake_console"). Then create some rules for it:

  <application name="urxvt" class="URxvt" title="quake_console">
    <decor>no</decor>
    <position force="yes">
      <x>right</x>
      <y>0</y>
    </position>

    <size>
      <width>100%</width>
      <height>40%</height>
    </size>

    <focus>yes</focus>
    <desktop>all</desktop>
    <layer>above</layer>
    <iconic>no</iconic>
    <skip_pager>yes</skip_pager>
    <skip_taskbar>yes</skip_taskbar>
    <fullscreen>no</fullscreen>
    <maximized>no</maximized>
  </application>

This works.

Now I need a key binding that would handle hiding and displaying of
the terminal. But the following snippet does not work:

  <keybind key="W-w">
    <!-- Find the terminal. -->
    <action name="ForEach">
      <title>quake_console</title>
      <then>
        <!-- Is it displayed? -->
        <action name="If">
          <desktop>current</desktop>
          <then>
            <!-- Hide it. -->
            <action name="SendToDesktop">
              <to>10</to>
              <wrap>no</wrap>
              <follow>no</follow>
            </action>
          </then>
          <else>
            <!-- Show it. -->
            <action name="SendToDesktop">
              <to>current</to>
              <wrap>no</wrap>
              <follow>no</follow>
            </action>
          </else>
        </action>
      </then>
    </action>
  </keybind>

And I do not understand where is a problem. I did not find any way how
to debug these rules. Documentation is not very helpful
(http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Actions#If). In the doc is introduces a
"basic structure" of the If action, where is "query" element, but in
the examples below is no such element used, which puzzles me even
more.

I made some simpler tests and it looks like that "title" condition is
not working.

Can somebody give me a hint why the second snippet does not work please?


Best regards
Martin Jiřička