[openbox] How to maximize,undecorate window once?

[Dana Jansens]

Does linking the binary give it a diff class name?

ln -s /usr/bin/midori /usr/bin/midori.1

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 3:00 PM, James Stortz <james.ryan.stortz at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks.
>
> Each application instance has to be launched automatically. I'm launching
> 4 web browsers at startup and they need to each be on their own desktop
> workspace.
>
> After that, I want the browser to launch as normal.
>
> I thought I just had a way to do it, a simple little trick, but not
> working!
>
> mv /usr/bin/midori /usr/bin/midori.1
> midori.1 -c cfg &
>
> mv /usr/bin/midori.1 /usr/bin/midori.2
> midori.2 -c cfg &
>
> mv /usr/bin/midori.2 /usr/bin/midori
>
> That will change the WM_CLASS to midori.1 and midori.2. Actually kinda
> cool. Thought it would work, but again it's too fast. Didn't want to use
> sleep, but even when I tried that it oddly set both to midori.1, even
> though it was called with midori.2!
>
>
>
> James
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Ian Zimmerman <itz at buug.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2015-09-01 20:52 +0000, James Stortz wrote:
>>
>> > Good evening! I need to know how to selectively open windows with
>> temporary
>> > options. It's easy enough to set them in the rc.xml, which is great! Any
>> > suggestions as to what might be possible? Doesn't seem to be a
>> programmatic
>> > way to do it, like an API.
>> >
>> > For example, is it possible to set the _OB_CLASS or _OB_NAME or
>> _OB_ROLE or
>> > something before launching an app?
>>
>> This is the type of question that's asking for:
>>
>> Why?
>>
>> If I know what you're really trying to do, I may have a better answer :-P
>>
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