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Everytime I open the same program (any program) it has lost its window settings from the last time I used it. I feel like this is probably been covered before but I googled and searched these forums and found nothing.
Last edited by herrvideman (2010-09-02 18:56:18)
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you could use a program called obapps. it's in the aur here : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37166
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I installed that and I'm trying to mess around with it but it doesn't have any effect on the windows.
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try to force the options you choose with obapps
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you can save window size, which desktop it's on, whether it's focused or not, decorated or not and so on with obapps. works for me. i take it you've added the app name you're trying to alter and then pressed apply? sorry, don't mean to be patronizing.
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I installed that and I'm trying to mess around with it but it doesn't have any effect on the windows.
Probably you'll need to reconfigure openbox afterward
openbox --reconfigure
It would at least be worth a try.
On the other hand, as ObApps merely is a GUI to change the rc.xml settings in ~/.config/openbox it works on an application basis only, hence basically globally, not necessarily on a running instance basis.
I do use a series of bash scripts (in ~/bin) for similar startup actions on the more frequent tasks of mine. This way I am in many cases able to preset size and location of the application windows in question (provided they respond to -geometry options or similar).
Last edited by bernarcher (2010-09-02 09:47:11)
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Just a hint, may not be your case. When I installed a lxde-arch (wich use openbox) it took me days to realize that the configuration files where owned by root, therefor nothing was keept once I log off, just to be sure this is not happening check that any file in your home directory is own by you.
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@yabasta You're not patronizing, don't worry about it. I used obapps (using 'find') to choose say, the terminal window for instance; so I know that obapps knows exactly which program I want to set.
@bernarcher I didn't think to do that until you mentioned it but now that I did it still won't work.
@RJQ That wasn't the case this time, however there was another instance where it was so that was a possibility.
I guess I'll just mess around with rc.xml by hand. No sense in getting too hung up on a GUI when it won't work and I can just easily edit the actual text file itself. Thanks guys.
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