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#1 2009-04-11 09:48:26

kanonmat
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From: Linköping, Sweden
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[SOLVED] openbox window borders and alt tab

There are two (atleast) things i'd like to fix in openbox (and lxde). I haven't found any info on it.
1) Window borders are only one pixel. It's hard to resize windows and very hard with touchpad. I have room for it on a 1400x1050 resolution. On kde I have 6 pixels. How can I widen the borders?

2) Alt + tab cycles through the windows on the current desktop only. I would like it to cycle through all windows on all desktops. I know I can middleclick on the background, but I'd like to alt tab too. How do I do that?

Last edited by kanonmat (2009-04-11 21:49:01)


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#2 2009-04-11 10:26:22

palobo
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From: Leiria, Portugal
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Re: [SOLVED] openbox window borders and alt tab

As far as cycling through windows on all desktops go I'm sure there is some kind of keybinding that could do that, haven't used OB long enough to know yet.

With regards to resizing the windows go you can easily ALT+right click and drag. You don't need to be on any border, only near the border. Try it and you will never need borders again for resizing ... ;-)

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#3 2009-04-11 19:29:18

Inxsible
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Re: [SOLVED] openbox window borders and alt tab

For 2 : Add this to your keybindings in rc.xml

<keybind key="W-Tab">
      <action name="NextWindow">
        <allDesktops>yes</allDesktops>
      </action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="W-S-Tab">
      <action name="PreviousWindow">
        <allDesktops>yes</allDesktops>
      </action>
</keybind>

This will use the Super+Tab and Super+Shift+Tab to move between windows across all desktops. You can still use Alt+Tab and Alt+Shift+Tab to move between windows within the same desktop

Last edited by Inxsible (2009-04-11 19:29:43)


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#4 2009-04-11 20:12:23

MarCustomized
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From: Detroit, MI
Registered: 2008-09-05
Posts: 116

Re: [SOLVED] openbox window borders and alt tab

kanonmat wrote:

Window borders are only one pixel. It's hard to resize windows and very hard with touchpad. I have room for it on a 1400x1050 resolution. On kde I have 6 pixels. How can I widen the borders?

Open /usr/share/themes/[theme name]/openbox-3/themerc.  That is the main configuration file of whatever theme you are using.  There should be a line with border.width: [value].  That dictates the pixel width of the window borders.  After you change the value, you must "Reconfigure" or restart Openbox to see the changes.

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#5 2009-04-11 20:17:34

SamC
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Re: [SOLVED] openbox window borders and alt tab

You can also hold alt and then drag to resize.

Edit: I'm both wrong and too slow.

Last edited by SamC (2009-04-11 20:17:58)

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#6 2009-04-11 21:48:45

kanonmat
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From: Linköping, Sweden
Registered: 2008-10-30
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Re: [SOLVED] openbox window borders and alt tab

Thank you, i'ts [SOLVED]


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