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Just annotations of little "how to's", so I know I can find how to do something I've already done when I need to do it again, in case I don't remember anymore, which is not unlikely. Hopefully they can be useful to others, but I can't guarantee that it will work, or that it won't even make things worse.

Wrapper-script to launch a browser in private/incognito mode if keys control or shift are being held (thought for Openbox menus)

Posted Today at 11:47 AM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated Today at 11:48 AM by the dsc

Tags openbox

While one can do something even more efficient with pure keybindings, or maybe merely first launching the normal window and then a private one, I thought that it was interesting. AFAIK it can't be done purely on Openbox' menu's functionalities alone.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
xinput query-state 9 2>/dev/null | grep "key\[50\]=down\|key\[62\]=down\|key\[37\]=down\|key\[105\]=down" && incognito="--incognito"

echo ${incognito/--} | aosd_cat

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Fix Google Chrome's ugly thick transparent-but-shadowed borders on compositors such as picom

Posted 05-10-2024 at 08:20 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 05-10-2024 at 10:05 PM by the dsc

Tags bug/feature, chrome, compton, openbox, picom

By adding this on the "shadow exclude" section:

Code:

"argb && (override_redirect || wmwin)"

Source:

https://github.com/chjj/compton/issu...mment-45407446

They've decided to once again reinvent the same GUI in the latest version of Chrome, but with some added dysfunctionalities or incompatibilities with more or less standard compositor configurations. Its context menus all of a sudden had a rather thick transparent...

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Circumventing some questionable webdesign practices with keybindings

Posted 02-12-2024 at 07:12 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)

Tags openbox

Some sites seem to assume you'd rather roll the mouse wheel than click and drag the scroll bar, so there's none. Sometimes you can even scroll down with the arrow keys, but that can be somewhat messy, with different sites chosing different parts to have been focused and thus they won't necessarily answer the way you'd expect consistently.

But one can "fake" the mouse wheel with the keyboard and xdotool.

On Openbox, I've just set up:

Code:

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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 10:38 AM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 11-08-2023 at 10:39 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 10:50 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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