[openbox] Exclude a window from Alt+Tabbing

[D.T.]

FYI, conky could take care of all these things:
- display a nice clock (analog?) with lua scripting
- display part or all of clipboards through a script utilizing e.g.
xclip
- configuration to skip pager and taskbar


On Sun, 2023-05-21 at 00:46 -0300, Luciano ES wrote:
> On Fri, 19 May 2023 14:47:21 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> 
> > I'm just curious. Why do you not want this particular window to
> > show up
> > via alt+tab? I'm wondering if I have a use case for this feature.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > SteveT
> ************************
> 
> 
> I have in fact two use cases for it.
> 
> 
> 1. I have a kind of clock application that just floats on the desktop
> area. It tells the time and also does some clipboard manipulation in 
> the background. Since it's just supposed to float ghostly, it
> shouldn't 
> be included in the pager or taskbar.
> 
> The funny thing is I made that application and it already dodged the 
> pager and taskbar by itself, although it did come up in the pager
> sometimes. The new setting on Openbox may have fixed that. Either
> way,
> I had forgotten that could be done from my own application.
> 
> 
> 2. Then I used to have all my clipboard items displayed on the screen
> with osdsh (on screen display) for half a second just to make sure I 
> have copied the right thing because I don't have a lot of trust in
> the 
> Linux clipboard. But osdsh is kind of broken because it can't display
> accented characters such as é, ê, à, õ etc. If the clipboard content 
> began with one such character, the entire content would be invisible.
> 
> So I decided to replace osdsh with a quick and dirty mini window I 
> made in Tk. That introduced a new problem. Whenever I copied
> something
> to the clipboard and quickly moved to Alt+Tab to another window to 
> paste the content, the clipboard mini window would get in the way and
> make me Alt+Tab to it by mistake. But now with the new setting on 
> Openbox, it works perfectly.
> 
> 

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