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Openbox sometimes requires a "triple click" for what one would expect to achieve with a double click

Posted 11-08-2023 at 11:38 AM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 11-08-2023 at 11:39 AM by the dsc

Tags double click, openbox, triple click

Was just randomly trying to see if you could have different mouse-bindings association for double and single click on the same context, and decided to web-search a bit after it failed, "maybe there's some syntax trick or something," I thought.

Instead I found an old post in this forum saying that, in completely different circumstances (out of window-management associations, seems to me), Openbox requires a triple click where other/actual DEs would require a double one....

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Prototype/principle for a wrapper script for multiple media players to use the same Openbox keybindings, depending on which one is running

Posted 03-25-2021 at 11:50 AM by the dsc (linux-related notes)

Tags mpc, mpv, openbox

Most likely not the most elegant way of doing it, and not fully functional (for mpv) regarding the display of media info:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

if pgrep -x mpv ; then

echo '{"command": ["playlist-next"]}' > /tmp/mpvsocket

#title=$(echo '{ "command": ["get_property", "media-title"] }'  >  /tmp/mpvsocket)

#title=( $(wmctrl -l | grep mpv$ ) ) 

#title=$(echo

...

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Second auto-hiding tint2 panel equivalent to Openbox' client-list combined menu, on the top-center of the screen

Posted 03-10-2021 at 04:13 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 03-10-2021 at 04:36 PM by the dsc

Tags openbox, tint2

The client-list combined menu shows a list of windows from all desktops, with the window titles. It's good for moving fast to a given window when you have lots of them spread around, maximized and minimized. But it does not allow you to move windows between desktops, and requires a click in order to be activated.

Tint2 taskbar is able to do both things, and does not need clicking to be brought, with the auto-hide functionality set. But the standard inconvenience is that it's a horizontal...

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tint2conf -- very nice configuration tool for tint2, comes by default with Debian's tint2, I guess

Posted 03-07-2021 at 07:07 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)

Tags openbox, tint2

I've been using tint2 for ages already, and I didn't know this config program existed. I've even had found something that looks like an older version of it before I found out I actually had it installed already.

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages...nt2conf.1.html

I'm not that much into it for the merely aesthetical aspect of the configuration, but because it allows you (indirectly) to create something like a secondary tint2 bar that's quite different from...

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Making Dolphin instances launched by Chrome or Firefox follow the QT theme set elsewhere, in Openbox, possibly other non-KDE environments

Posted 03-05-2021 at 01:46 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 03-07-2021 at 07:28 PM by the dsc

Tags openbox, style, theme

I had this issue, if I clicked to open a folder for a downloaded file on Chrome, the Dolphin file manager launched would be somewhat theme-less, even without any icon theme set, making it less usable than the same program if I ran it from an Openbox menu or "alt+F2" run command.

While I was hoping there was a somewhat "secret" environment variable that I hadn't set in order to make it work right, I couldn't find one. Instead the only "solution" I have...

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