Start windows centered in Openbox

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I want all my windows to open centered on the screen. How do I do this? I am new to mabox.

Thanks!!!

Randy🙂

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Did you read/search Openbox documentation?
Everything you need to start windows centered is there → Help:Applications - Openbox
and in rc.xml file provided as an example. Also ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml file provided by Mabox have a lot of information about that.

You need something like this:

<applications>
  <application class="*">
    <focus>yes</focus>
    <position force="no">
    <x>center</x>
    <y>200</y>
    <monitor>1</monitor>
    </position>
  </application>
</applications>
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Thanks napcok!!!

I should have looked at the openbox documentation but I thought that it might be something unique to mabox. I love mabox!!!:blush: Thanks for your reply!!!

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I use configuration cited above, and today morning it starts my tint2 panel positioned 200px from top.

To avoid that I changed configuration to:

<applications>
    <application class="*" type="normal">
      <focus>yes</focus>
      <position force="no">
      <x>center</x>
      <y>center</y>
      <monitor>1</monitor>
    </position>
    </application>
</applications>

Note type=“normal” - this affects most of applications but no tint2 which have type=“dock”.
To examine type of any window you can run:

obxprop | grep "^_OB_APP"

then click on window/app.

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