Show window content when using Alt-Tab [solved]

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Hi everyone.

I’m gonna put this here just in case someone else need it.

When you press Alt-Tab, by default, you only see the window outline (an empty, transparent box) but sometimes, like in my case, is handy to see the actual content of the windows.

In order to change this behavior, edit your ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml and change the raise value from “no“ to “yes”:

<keybind key="A-Tab">
  <action name="NextWindow">
    <dialog>icons</dialog>
    <raise>yes</raise>
    <allDesktops>no</allDesktops>
  </action>

Regards.

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For those interested…
A full list of parameters for the NextWindow action assigned to the A-Tab keyboard shortcut is available in the Openbox documentation.

An alternative method for switching windows that has been available in Mabox for some time is W-Tab (Win+Tab). It uses skippy-xd. Can be invoked also by click on bottom -left corner of the screen.

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Skippy-xd is Nice :robot: