[Solved] Change window manager behaviour

berniz95 · 2016-06-23 15:52:22

Hello, I'm using the latest crunchbang distribution with nitrogen updates. There's something I would like to tell openbox from the beginning but don't know how :
I would like a window to raise *only* when I click in the title bar and not in the frame.
Which allows to copy something from a window somewhere behind and paste it in the front window without switching windows.
For instance
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
</mousebind>
Is not effective : the window I click on stays back and gets the focus but not the events ! So I can't select text or do anything.

Last edited by berniz95 (2016-06-23 17:47:59)

damo · 2016-06-23 16:21:54

The first thing that springs to mind is to have a keybind to toggle the window to stay on top: http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Actions#ToggleAlwaysOnTop

So set it to stay on top, then do your C&P etc, then toggle it to normal behaviour.

berniz95 · 2016-06-23 17:47:18

I found a different way :

<context name="Client">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>

</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Middle" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Right" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>

last line commented out does what I expect : tell the Client to focus but not raise.

Thanks for answering quickly !

(edit) in file ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml that is.

Last edited by berniz95 (2017-08-30 10:42:01)

#1 2016-06-23 15:52:22

[Solved] Change window manager behaviour

#2 2016-06-23 16:21:54

Re: [Solved] Change window manager behaviour

#3 2016-06-23 17:47:18

Re: [Solved] Change window manager behaviour

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