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futonrevolutionary

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Registered: 2008-09-16

Posts: 9

assigning openbox client menu to mouseclick on pypanel

In many window managers, if you right-click on a program in your panel it will show the 'client menu", or a menu with options to control the size and positioning and whatnot (maximize, minimize, close, etc). How would I accomplish this in Openbox using pypanel? Since the event handling is controlled by pypanel and the menu is drawn by OB, there's no simple feature to do this.

Or is there? Am I missing something in the docs? Anyone else have a setup like this with OB and pypanel?

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: assigning openbox client menu to mouseclick on pypanel

In openbox set up a keybind for showing the menu (for example mod4+w).
For the pypanel action you can set xdotool to simulate a fake keypress (read the manpage).
In this example it would be: "xdotool key mod4+w"

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futonrevolutionary

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Registered: 2008-09-16

Posts: 9

Re: assigning openbox client menu to mouseclick on pypanel

That opens it at the top right corner. Is there any way it can follow the mouse?