Re: make the root-menu appear at a fixed location when opening it with a keyboard shortcut, possible?
Mikael Magnusson <[email protected]>
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On 6 October 2014 07:43, TT <[email protected]> wrote: > Mikael Magnusson wrote: >> >> On 3 October 2014 22:58, Micha <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi folks ! >>> I don't know, how to step into an active subject, hope this will appear >>> where it belongs to.:-[ >>> When I first read the posts of this topic, I wouldn't believe, that there >>> is >>> any problem achieving such behaviour. >>> But then I realized, there are two different actions involved: >>> 1.: Setting the pointer ( with Xdotool ) >>> 2.: Calling the root-menu >> >> You guys know openbox is open source right? There's no need for these >> awful hacks proliferating, you can just add a parameter to the >> showmenu action. > > You mean like this? => > <mousebind action="Press" button="Right"> > <action name="ShowMenu"> > <menu>root-menu</menu> > <position force="yes"> > <x>100</x> > <y>100</y> > </position> > </action> > </mousebind> > For a moment i thought, wow, could it be that simple... > but unfortunately it doesn't work that way. > the actual current position of the mouse pointer takes precedence. > > but in a way i agree -- > why does one need to create hacks to have the root menu at a certain > position? > -- i think this is rather a case of adjusting your habits. I mean that, and write the code, and send the patch here. :) -- Mikael Magnusson _______________________________________________ openbox mailing list [email protected] http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/openbox