[openbox] iconifying Chromium on startup

[Xyne]

Thanks for the quick reply. Here's the output that shows that it is indeed
iconifying and then uniconifying Chromium. I suppose that this is an issue
with Chromium but is there any way to work around it in Openbox while still
allowing other windows to be automatically focused?


Openbox-Debug: Iconifying window: 0xa00001
Openbox-Debug: (FOCUS) ignoring enters from 27628 until 27629
Openbox-Debug: Managed window 0xa00001 plate 0x400879 (Chromium)
Openbox-Debug: net_wm_state Add 381 382 for 0xa00001
Openbox-Debug: Sending ConfigureNotify to New Tab - Chromium for 0,0 1600x900
Openbox-Debug: (FOCUS) ignoring enters from 27634 until 27707
Openbox-Debug: net_active_window for 0xa00001 source=application
Openbox-Debug: Want to focus window 0xa00001 at time 183164703 launched at 0 (last user interaction time 0) request from user, allow other desktop: no, desktop switch time 0
Openbox-Debug: Unknown launch time, using 0 - independent window
Openbox-Debug: Allowing focus stealing for New Tab - Chromium at time 183164703 (last user interaction time 0)
Openbox-Debug: Uniconifying window: 0xa00001




On 2017-07-28 11:07 -0400
Dana Jansens wrote:

>It could be that chromium is making itself active. If you run with openbox
>with --debug --debug-focus you'll get a lot of data what's going on when
>you open it.
>
>On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Xyne <xyne at archlinux.ca> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> For a couple of years I have had the following in my rc.xml file to prevent
>> browsers from stealing focus when they start up:
>>
>>
>>     <application role="browser">
>>       <focus>no</focus>
>>       <iconic>yes</iconic>
>>     </application>
>>
>>
>> This has worked flawlessly with Firefox and Chromium until recently.
>> Firefox is
>> still iconified and unfocused when it starts but Chromium pops up and takes
>> focus. Relevant output from obxprop for the Chromium window:
>>
>> _OB_APP_CLASS(UTF8_STRING) = "Chromium"
>> _OB_APP_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = "chromium"
>> _OB_APP_ROLE(UTF8_STRING) = "browser"
>> WM_WINDOW_ROLE(STRING) = "browser"
>> WM_CLASS(STRING) = "chromium", "Chromium"
>>
>> Attempting to catch it with class="chromium" fails as well. Even class="*"
>> fails. Am I missing something or has Chromium simply become incompliant?
>>
>> I am using Openbox 3.6.1 and Chromium 60.0.3112.78 on Arch Linux. I can
>> provide
>> full obxprop output if needed.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help.
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