Some Openbox tips

1. Add shutdown and reboot to openbox menu

Add the following lines to ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml

<item label="Restart">
    <action name="Execute">
 <prompt>
  Are you sure you want to reboot ?
 </prompt>
 <command>dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit" /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Restart</command>
    </action>
</item>
<item label="Shutdown">
    <action name="Execute">
 <prompt>
  Are you sure you want to shutdown ?
 </prompt>
 <command>dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit" /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Stop</command>
    </action>
</item>

2. Auto-move window to a specific desktop

Add the following lines to ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml in applications section, you can get app/window proprieties using obxprop utility (included in openbox package).

<application name="App_Name">
    <desktop>2</desktop>
</application>

3.Window snapping (like in Gnome 3)

• Win-Up: Maximize window
• Win-Down: Minimize window
• Win-Left: Snap window to the left side
• Win-Right: Snap window to the right side

Add the following lines to ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml in keyboard section

    <keybind key="W-Up">
      <action name="ToggleMaximize"/>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="W-Down">
      <action name="ToggleMaximize"/>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="W-Left">
      <action name="UnmaximizeFull"/>
      <action name="MoveResizeTo">
        <x>0</x>
        <y>0</y>
        <width>50%</width>
        <height>100%</height>
      </action>
      <action name="ToggleMaximizeVert"/>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="W-Right">
      <action name="UnmaximizeFull"/>
      <action name="MoveResizeTo">
        <x>50%</x>
        <y>0</y>
        <width>50%</width>
        <height>100%</height>
      </action>
      <action name="ToggleMaximizeVert"/>
    </keybind>