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

[Dana Jansens]

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Martin Jiřička <mjiricka at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Here's the code that does the parsing. It looks for a <query> and uses the
current target window if no <query> exists.
https://github.com/danakj/openbox/blob/master/openbox/actions/if.c#L256

Sounds like the examples are wrong.


>
> 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
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