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viking60

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Registered: 2010-08-02

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[SOLVED]Openbox hotkey for xfce4 drop-down terminal

Hi
I have made a hotkey (F12) in rc.xml to start the xfce4 --drop-down terminal. This works well but I want to close the terminal with it too.

When I hit F12 again the terminal will only jump up a bit and hide my Tint2 panel on the top.

Next I tried to nest in a second action to close the terminal and regardless of what I put in there the F12 key will now close the terminal again - as I want.

I will get an annoying openbox error message though.

If I put regular commands like xfce4-terminal --hide in there then the Terminal will only shift up a tad to hide my Tint 2 panel again.

So here is my ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml right now.

   <keybind key="F12">
    <action name="Execute">
      <command>xfce4-terminal --drop-down --title "Viking terminal" -e "tmux attach" --tab --title "Atop" -e atop --tab --title "Iftop" -e "sudo iftop" --tab --title "Terminal"</command>
    </action>
    <action name="Execute">
	<command>"Just close this stupid error message"</command>
		</action>
  </keybind>

 
F12 will open and close the window - but I will get an Openbox error message.

If I could get an "empty" command in there that would not generate an error message then my problem would be solved..
Is there a way to suppress the error message?
Is there a regular command that actually works?
Ideas?

Edit:
This is solved unchecking the "Use shortcut to Focus visible Window" in the xfce4-terminal settings took care of the problem

Last edited by viking60 (2015-05-28 13:12:23)

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