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Subject: [openbox] Window overlay on keypress
From: laska () kam ! mff ! cuni ! cz (Ladislav Laska)
Date: 2010-12-25 14:40:26
Message-ID: krakonos+md-20101225.143946.12995.ibex () krakonos ! org
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Hello,
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 10:20:55AM +0100, Andreas Fink wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 15:55:18 +0100
> Ladislav Laska <laska at kam.mff.cuni.cz> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'd like to configure my openbox so that it can show/hide a window based on a
> > keystroke (I have some unused buttons on my kb), but can't figure out how.
> >
> > What I want to do is to crate a windows, that will be invisible in a normal
> > manner (cant alt-tab there, doesn't show in taskbar) and still be able to switch
> > to it with a key combination (press to show, press again to hide). I'd like it
> > to show my /var/log/messages all the time (like 12th text console, but I don't
> > like switching to text mode).
> >
> > I browsed the manuals and didn't find anything that would do it. Is it even
> > possible? Does anyone know how to do it?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Best regards Ladislav L?ska
> >
>
> Maybe rxvt-unicode (aka urxvt) could help you. It has a perl extension named kuake, \
> which grabs a key and shows/hides the console.
> Usage: urxvt -pe kuake'<YOUR_KEY>'
> YOUR_KEY is the name of the key as shown in xev.
Good idea, this works just fine. Thanks!
>
> Regards
> Andreas
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S pozdravem Ladislav L?ska <laska at kam.mff.cuni.cz>
Katedra Aplikovan? Matematiky, MFF UK tel.: +420 739 464 167
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