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List:       openbox
Subject:    announce: ob3_theme, ob3_q3stat and my openbox patch
From:       logan () dct ! com (Mike)
Date:       2003-09-25 6:06:18
Message-ID: 20030925060618.GA14562 () gozer ! dminteractive ! com
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Heyas,

Here's a few things I've been working on for a little while and thought I'd announce \
to the list, in case anyone had interest.


I know there's already a few theme menu generation scripts floating about, but I \
decided to make my own.

http://www.gozer.org/my_stuff/c/c/ob3_theme.c

One of the minor advantages of ob3_theme is that it gets the _OPENBOX_PID property \
from the running instance of openbox, no hunting for killall/pkill, etc. Should work \
on anything with glib and gdk.

Usage is pretty simple:
    ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml:
      <theme>
        <name>~/.config/openbox/theme</name>
      </theme>

    ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml:
      <menu id="ob3_theme" label="Themes" execute="ob3_theme" />

ob3_theme differs from the other scripts in that rc.xml is not modified when you \
change themes. Instead you setup the rc to use ~/.config/openbox/theme for the theme. \
ob3_theme then updates this symlink as themes are changed.


This might be of interest to any quake3 players.

http://www.gozer.org/my_stuff/c/c/ob3_q3stat.c

XQF favorites can be used:
  <menu id="q3a-fav" label="Q3A: Favorites" execute="ob3_q3stat -f -i xqf" />

Or a list specified on the command line:
  <menu id="q3a-q3ut" label="Q3A: Urban Terror"
    execute="ob3_q3stat -i q3ut 207.44.182.28:27960 207.44.132.85:27960" />

For large lists I'd suggest enabling the caching option (-c). If caching is enabled, \
it lasts for 60 seconds, but can be adjusted with -T [timeout].


And finally my patch, which has a few things xor doesn't want to include, hasn't yet \
or dislikes the behavior of...

http://www.gozer.org/my_stuff/c/
http://www.gozer.org/my_stuff/c/c/openbox/3.0/beta/openbox-3.0-beta4-logan.diff
http://www.gozer.org/my_stuff/c/c/openbox/3.0/beta/openbox-3.0-beta5-logan.diff

The under mouse placement configuration was taken from Andrew Hesford's post to \
bugzilla (https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=801). Looks ok to me, so I see \
no reason to change it. :)

Note that I use sloppy focus (followMouse), so a majority of the behavioral changes \
are geared toward that.

These patches for beta4 and 5 add the following:
    makes --disable-debug work regardless of alpha, beta, or cvs releases.
    makes popups for window/workspace cycling configurable.
    makes under mouse window placement configurable.
    makes followMouse work as it should when closing windows, focus under pointer or \
focusLast (if enabled).  makes new transient windows focused if the parent is \
(blackbox/openbox2 behavior). Mozilla's 'Find In Page' dialog is once instance I \
appreciate this.

And adds the following for rc.xml:
  <popup>
    <cycleFocus>no</cycleFocus>
    <cycleWorkspace>no</cycleWorkspace>
  </popup>

  <placement>
    <scheme>undermouse</scheme>
  </placement>

If <scheme> is anything other than 'undermouse', smart placement (default) is used.


Feedback on any of these is welcome. :)

Mike


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