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#1 2009-07-27 07:35:09

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[SOLVED] Can't resize windows in Openbox

I installed a new theme from box-look last night and had everything working perfectly. When I logged in today, I am unable to resize the windows (or for that matter use any of the window controls).

I have looked through my rc.xml and can't see any obvious setting that would disable these controls. I have tried switching back to one of the original themes, but the behaviour persists.

Any ideas?

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#2 2009-07-27 09:56:43

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't resize windows in Openbox

Doesn't Alt+Tab bring up the Openbox window menu?


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#3 2009-07-27 19:00:17

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't resize windows in Openbox

It does: but it would be nice to be able to drag windows to a convenient size (and location)...

More to the point, I am curious how this functionality is controlled.


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#4 2009-07-27 19:19:59

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't resize windows in Openbox

alt-click-and-hold -- move it around
alt-right-click-and-hold -- resize it around

do these still work?

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#5 2009-07-27 19:20:56

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't resize windows in Openbox

Have you read up on Openbox's documentation? Might give you some pointers... I'm not sure what you want to know. You can have Openbox do pseudo-tiling (resizing or relocating windows), if that's what you want.


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#6 2009-07-27 19:50:20

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't resize windows in Openbox

@brisbin33 No - neither of these work.

@B I have been studying it.

The problem is that (over a 24 hour period) I went from being able to resize windows by dragging the bottom right corner or the border (and moving them with the title bar) to not being able to do either. I have tried various options in rc.xml to recover the functionality, but seem unable to do so.

Thanks for your pointers...


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#7 2009-07-27 20:05:47

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't resize windows in Openbox

Have you tried in openbox, right clicking on the desktop and going to Reconfigure Openbox? Maybe there's a parsing error, so it can't properly use your config.

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#8 2009-07-27 20:45:14

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't resize windows in Openbox

OK - I got it sorted: seems I had a malformed line in my <mouse> section, which for some reason wasn't throwing an error after a reconfigure...


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