[Openbox]Disabling black borders around windows when switching[solved]

orschiro · 2014-02-16 05:49:14

Hi there,

I am wondering whether it is possible to disable the thick black border animation around windows when switching between windows in ALT + TAB mode.

Screenshot of the border that I am talking about:

http://i.imgur.com/N92tyTy.png

Last edited by orschiro (2014-02-16 19:50:28)

Rexilion · 2014-02-16 17:53:50

http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Themes wrote:

osd.border.width
Type: integer
Default: border.width
Valid: 0 - 100
Specifies the size of the border drawn on-screen-dialogs, such as the focus cycling (Alt-Tab) dialog.
See also: osd.border.color

orschiro · 2014-02-16 19:49:37

Thanks!

nashamri · 2015-02-14 21:55:16

Did that work? the "osd.border.width: 0" only removes the borders around the Alt-Tab dialog, not the borders around the windows themselves.

Trilby · 2015-02-14 22:48:14

This seems like a very very odd solution. The correct solution would simply be to specify <bar>no</bar> in the action.

orschiro · 2015-02-15 10:32:37

Trilby wrote:

This seems like a very very odd solution. The correct solution would simply be to specify <bar>no</bar> in the action.

Great solution, thanks!

<!-- Keybindings for window switching -->
    <keybind key="A-Tab">
      <action name="NextWindow">
        <!-- Hide black border around windows -->
        <bar>no</bar>
        <finalactions>
          <action name="Focus"/>
          <action name="Raise"/>
          <action name="Unshade"/>
        </finalactions>
      </action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="A-S-Tab">
      <action name="PreviousWindow">
        <!-- Hide black border around windows -->
        <bar>no</bar>
        <finalactions>
          <action name="Focus"/>
          <action name="Raise"/>
          <action name="Unshade"/>
        </finalactions>
      </action>
    </keybind>

nashamri · 2015-02-15 13:17:59

Thanks Trilby! works great!

However, is there a way to change the color of that <bar>?
I'd like to have it but with a different color and I looked in the documentation and didn't find anything.

Trilby · 2015-02-15 13:52:55

I never use these - I disable the bar indicator and use cycling as non-interactive. But I just looked into it and it seems the white-on-black indicator is hard-coded. If you want to patch/change the source, these are on lines 95 and 100-101 of openbox/focus_cycle_indicator.c.

nashamri · 2015-02-15 14:05:39

Thanks Trilby, really helpful!

nashamri · 2015-02-15 18:06:22

Works beautifully,

Screenshot

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#1 2014-02-16 05:49:14

[Openbox]Disabling black borders around windows when switching[solved]

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