Help setting up quake-like urxvt in OpenBox

Question

I stumbled upon a script here that should enable urxvt to be executed as a quake-like dropdown (similar to tilda). I placed both scripts as "urxvtc" and "urxvtq" in ~/.config/openbox/ per the instructions. I also have installed xdotool.
~/.config/openbox/urxvtc scriptlet:
#!/bin/sh
urxvtc "$@"
if [ $? -eq 2 ]; then
urxvtd -q -o -f
urxvtc "$@"
fi
~/.config/openbox/urxvtq scriptlet:
#!/bin/bash
wid=$(xdotool search --classname urxvtq)
if [ -z "$wid" ]; then
/path/to/urxvtc -name urxvtq -geometry 80x28
wid=$(xdotool search --classname urxvtq | head -1)
xdotool windowfocus $wid
xdotool key Control_L+l
else
if [ -z "$(xdotool search --onlyvisible --classname urxvtq 2>/dev/null)" ]; then
xdotool windowmap $wid
xdotool windowfocus $wid
else
xdotool windowunmap $wid
fi
fi
After placing these scriptlets and rebooting, I tried it out, and couldn't get anything to pop up (or couldn't understand the keybindings; and so I read further. On the wiki was a link to  Xyne's post outlining how he originally got this working. I realized that I didn't have the keybindings set, and followed his guide, editing my rc.xml accordingly.
The keybindings are mod4+` for the tilda-like urxvt dropdown, and mod4+t for a popup urxvt terminal. Whenever I attempt to execute the terminal with either keypress combination, I receive this error: Failed to execute child process "/home/rogue/.config/openbox/urxtvq" (Permission denied)
I can't understand why I can't execute something that is placed in my own home folder. If someone could please point me in the right direction or give me a hand with fixing this up, I'd really appreciate the assistance. Thanks!
Edit: I also added
urxvtd -f &
to ~/.config/openbox/autostart as called for in this post
Last edited by rogue (2011-10-12 13:22:22)

Answer 1

rogue wrote:
the application entry in my rc.xml is:
<application name="urxvtq">
<decor>no</decor>
<position force="yes">
<x>0</x>
<y>0</y>
</position>
<desktop>all</desktop>
<layer>above</layer>
<skip_pager>yes</skip_pager>
<skip_taskbar>yes</skip_taskbar>
<maximized>Horizontal</maximized>
</application>
I've tried searching for how the x/y coordinates measure stuff but haven't come up with much. Is it pixel by pixel? Is it based on a one frame graph or a four frame? It seems that everytime I make a change, I must reboot, as logging out doesn't seem to do the trick. Set at 0,0 the terminal opens in the center of the screen while im on the desktop; but when I'm working in a fullscreen window and open the terminal, it appears randomly around the screen.
Reconfiguring openbox should be enough to load the changes you've made to rc.xml. If not, restarting only X via the ctrl+alt+backspace combo will work for sure.
About positioning the window, try changing
<x>0</x>
<y>0</y>
into
<x>center</x>
<y>center</y>
and see if it makes any difference