[openbox] Missing some actions, most importantly "GoToUrgentClient"
Klebezettel
klebezettel at gmx.net
Sun Jun 28 13:27:31 EDT 2015
Dear openbox users and developers,
I've just switched from the awesome window manager to
openbox and there are some bits that I couldn't figure yet
out. I'm on openbox 3.5.2 and as far as I can tell, openbox
3.6 [1] can't help me with these either. Apart from that,
thanks for this wonderful piece of software.
1. Action for toggling between normal/top layer?
I don't have a use case for the bottom layer (what would
the typical one be?) and so I miss a key binding for
toggling a client between these two layers. Currently I
have to use *two* key bindings for this (SendToLayer).
2. Toggle decorations for *all* (normal) clients?
I need this one for colleagues that are used to a title
bar and are otherwise helpless (e.g. co-workers coming to
your machine to debug sth...).
3. Exclude iconified windows in A+Tab dialog and
restore/focus last iconified (stack)?
This is useful if you know that you are not going to work
with some windows for a while.
...and now the most important one:
4. I'm looking for sth. like "GoToUrgentClient".
Awesome has "Mod4 + u" which will "Focus first urgent
client" (man awesome). This one is super handy and my so
far concrete use cases both involve urxt with
URxvt*urgentOnBell:true:
(1) IM/IRC message arrived, go there.
(e.g. weechat inside urxvt)
(2) Long running build job finished, go there.
(Urxvt+tmux monitor for activity/silence)
Now being able to focus the urgent client is on thing,
another is to get *notified* about urgent clients. Since
openbox is solely a window manager, there is no
widget/panel that could notify me. Awesome has the pager
integrated in the panel by default and would indicate an
urgent client in the pager (red background).
So I started to look at tint2, which is quite nice,
except for the case that there is no way to get notified
about an urgent client if you use the single_desktop
setting (taskbar_mode = single_desktop), which I use...
There is a bug report / wish for this.
How do you solve the problem?
Best regards,
klebezettel
[1] http://openbox.org/wiki/Openbox:Changelog#3.6
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