Re: Persisting a desktop terminal window across ToggleShowDesktop with xdotool - interesting failure mode

If you can force the window to be marked as TYPE_DESKTOP when it maps, that
would prevent it from hiding. Probably requires hacking the terminal or
openbox code to do that tho.

On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Paul G <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm attempting to arrive at a working config for a transparent terminal
> window on the desktop. This works well except that it gets hidden with
> Super-D (ToggleShowDesktop), as one would expect. Having failed to find a
> way to protect the terminal window from being hidden by this, I moved on to
> trying to re-map it afterwards with xdotool. I've succeeded - but only
> partially - and this is where it gets interesting (for me, anyway).
>
> I can indeed successfully find the window with xdotool, I can map it again
> and everything looks great as long as I do so myself from the shell; when I
> attempt to have it happen automatically by sticking the same shell script
> into an Execute action (for the Super-D key binding *or* a different one),
> I get nada. The script runs, the log shows the window is found and xdotool
> returns 0, but nothing happens. I've tried adding a sleep up to 15s in case
> there's a race of some sort and still no luck.
>
> If someone can think of a different way to achieve the desired result I'd
> be chuffed. With that said, I'm sufficiently curious about why this is
> happening that I'm now more interested in finding that out than having a
> transparent desktop terminal ;)
>
> ForEach would not work for this even if I had it (i don't - using wheezy's
> 3.5.0-7 currently), since the terminal has two windows, of which only the
> second one needs to be re-mapped, and there doesn't appear to be a way to
> persist state across loop iterations.
>
> The details of my attempted set-up are as follows:
>
> openbox = 3.5
> tilda = 0.09.6
>
> relevant rc.xml snippets:
>
> <application name="tilda-desktop">
>       <focus>no</focus>
>       <layer>below</layer>
>       <desktop>All</desktop>
>       <skip_taskbar>yes</skip_taskbar>
>       <skip_pager>yes</skip_pager>
>       <decor>no</decor>
> </application>
>
>     <keybind key="W-d">
>       <action name="ToggleShowDesktop"/>
>       <action name="Execute">
> <command>bash /home/paul/show-tilda-desktop.sh &amp;</command>
>   </action>
>     </keybind>
>     <keybind key="W-A-F5">
> <action name="Execute">
> <command>bash /home/paul/show-tilda-desktop.sh &amp;</command>
>   </action>
>     </keybind>
>
> show-tilda-desktop.sh:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> sleep 15s
> echo -e "woke up..." > /tmp/show.log
> xdotool search --classname Tilda >> /tmp/show.log
> echo -e "running..." >> /tmp/show.log
> xdotool search --classname Tilda | awk 'BEGIN { RS = " "; FS = "\n" }
> {print $2}' | xargs -l1 xdotool windowmap
> echo -e "$?" >> /tmp/show.log
>
>
>
> Is there something obvious that I'm missing, say about the context Execute
> runs <command>s?
>
> Cheers,
> -p
>
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