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Commanding openbox through scripts or command line

Posted 10-19-2011 at 10:03 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 10-19-2011 at 10:05 PM by the dsc
Tags openbox, rants

Is it possible? If it is, it's not obvious in any way, nor documented in the manual.

I think that would be an interesting feature if it currently lacks it. I don't really know, but I think it wouldn't be so much of a huge thing to implement the possibility of running commands such as "openbox-command menu-id-whatever" to make a given menu pop-up; or "openbox-command nexdesktop" so a script could move the view to a different desktop (but perhaps it can be done with...
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openbox and repeating keys

Posted 10-11-2010 at 01:50 AM by sag47
Updated 10-11-2010 at 01:52 AM by sag47
Tags openbox

Recently I've been using openbox but it has been driving me crazy! Mainly because when you hold down a key it does not repeat like it does on all other WMs and OSs. After googling around forever I found I can enable my auto repeating keys in ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh with the following code.
Code:
xset r on
Handy.
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