A quick question

haxit · 2008-10-05 16:11:02

Ok! How can I dedicate a whole openbox desktop for just a full screen, undecorated terminal? It would have to ignore conky and tint.

Stythys · 2008-10-05 16:32:04

check out this link

haxit · 2008-10-05 16:36:52

Ok, How about I restate this. How can I open gnome terminal in my second desktop on startup, where it will be fullscreen and undecorated? Also the second desktop shouldn't have conky or tint. Also without compiz. I already have the termianl transparent.

Last edited by haxit (2008-10-05 16:37:22)

dmz · 2008-10-05 16:43:32

haxit wrote:

Ok, How about I restate this. How can I open gnome terminal in my second desktop on startup, where it will be fullscreen and undecorated? Also the second desktop shouldn't have conky or tint. Also without compiz. I already have the termianl transparent.

I don't know why you want to use gnome-terminal, but you could use devilspie to make it undecorated, fullscreen, etc. Just put it in your autostart.sh.

As for conky and tint, I have no idea though.

Stythys · 2008-10-05 17:01:31

um...my link describes how to turn off window decoration....

SkonesMickLoud · 2008-10-05 17:06:50

As dmz said, you could use devilspie and pin it to a particular desktop and list it in your autostart.

AsA · 2008-10-05 17:11:37

With Openbox you can set the default behaviour of a program through the config file, without using devilspie.

see here the documentation:
http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Help:Applications

giva an eye to this example:

  <!-- my xterm with screen in it must always be on desktop 2,
       maximized and below everything else -->
  <application name="screen">
    <desktop>2</desktop>
    <maximized>yes</maximized>
    <layer>below</layer>
  </application>

maybe changing "below" with the appropriate keyword (over?) you could get what you want.

Last edited by AsA (2008-10-05 17:12:46)

haxit · 2008-10-05 17:57:57

Thanks guys, but I do what you did AsA, but it won't open in desktop 2. I have the class and everything but still doesn't work :S

  <application class="gnome-terminal">
    <desktop>2</desktop>
    <decor>no</decor>
    <fullscreen>yes</fullscreen>
  </application>

Last edited by haxit (2008-10-05 18:05:51)

dmz · 2008-10-05 18:32:00

haxit wrote:

Thanks guys, but I do what you did AsA, but it won't open in desktop 2. I have the class and everything but still doesn't work :S
  <application class="gnome-terminal">
    <desktop>2</desktop>
    <decor>no</decor>
    <fullscreen>yes</fullscreen>
  </application>

  <application name="gnome-terminal">

haxit · 2008-10-05 23:51:20

dmz wrote:

haxit wrote:
Thanks guys, but I do what you did AsA, but it won't open in desktop 2. I have the class and everything but still doesn't work :S
  <application class="gnome-terminal">
    <desktop>2</desktop>
    <decor>no</decor>
    <fullscreen>yes</fullscreen>
  </application>
  <application name="gnome-terminal">

I also tried that, still doesn't work.

AsA · 2008-10-06 12:58:36

It should work, I tried it just a second ago...

i added

<application name="xterm">
    <desktop>2</desktop>
    <maximized>yes</maximized>
    <layer>below</layer>
  </application>

to the application section of .config/openbox/rc.xml and after restarting openbox it worked perfectly.

Maybe you should recheck the result of xprop WM_CLASS for gnome-terminal, unfortunately I can't do it myself because I'm allergic to gnome dependancies. .

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