[Solved] Is it possible to save openbox window settings?

herrvideman · 2010-09-01 20:41:22

Everytime I open the same program (any program) it has lost its window settings from the last time I used it. I feel like this is probably been covered before but I googled and searched these forums and found nothing.

Last edited by herrvideman (2010-09-02 18:56:18)

yabasta · 2010-09-01 20:45:06

you could use a program called obapps. it's in the aur here : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37166

herrvideman · 2010-09-01 21:16:45

I installed that and I'm trying to mess around with it but it doesn't have any effect on the windows.

toketin · 2010-09-01 21:49:51

try to force the options you choose with obapps

yabasta · 2010-09-02 05:47:56

you can save window size, which desktop it's on, whether it's focused or not, decorated or not and so on with obapps. works for me. i take it you've added the app name you're trying to alter and then pressed apply? sorry, don't mean to be patronizing.

bernarcher · 2010-09-02 09:39:40

herrvideman wrote:

I installed that and I'm trying to mess around with it but it doesn't have any effect on the windows.

Probably you'll need to reconfigure openbox afterward

openbox --reconfigure

It would at least be worth a try.

On the other hand, as ObApps merely is a GUI to change the rc.xml settings in ~/.config/openbox it works on an application basis only, hence basically globally, not necessarily on a running instance basis.

I do use a series of bash scripts (in ~/bin) for similar startup actions on the more frequent tasks of mine. This way I am in many cases able to preset size and location of the application windows in question (provided they respond to -geometry options or similar).

Last edited by bernarcher (2010-09-02 09:47:11)

RJQ · 2010-09-02 14:25:15

Just a hint, may not be your case. When I installed a lxde-arch (wich use openbox) it took me days to realize that the configuration files where owned by root, therefor nothing was keept once I log off, just to be sure this is not happening check that any file in your home directory is own by you.

herrvideman · 2010-09-02 17:02:46

@yabasta You're not patronizing, don't worry about it. I used obapps (using 'find') to choose say, the terminal window for instance; so I know that obapps knows exactly which program I want to set.

@bernarcher I didn't think to do that until you mentioned it but now that I did it still won't work.

@RJQ That wasn't the case this time, however there was another instance where it was so that was a possibility.

I guess I'll just mess around with rc.xml by hand. No sense in getting too hung up on a GUI when it won't work and I can just easily edit the actual text file itself. Thanks guys.

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[Solved] Is it possible to save openbox window settings?

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