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x-tile🔗

From the manpage:

X-Tile works on any X desktop (gnome, kde, xfce, lxde…). The main features are: many tiling geometries, undo tiling, invert tiling order, cycle tiling order, optional system tray docking and menu, filter to avoid listing some windows, filter to check some windows by default, command line interface.

Any time I install an app that has a cl interface I think, "Score! I can turn that into an Openbox menu!" And without further ado...

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<openbox_menu>
<menu label="Desktop menu" id="openbox-desktop">
  <menu id="xtile-menu" label="Tile windows">
    <item label="Undo last operation">
      <action name="Execute">
        <execute>x-tile z</execute>
      </action>
    </item>
    <item label="Cycle last operation ">
      <action name="Execute">
        <execute>x-tile y</execute>
      </action>
    </item>
    <item label="Invert last operation">
      <action name="Execute">
        <execute>x-tile i</execute>
      </action>
    </item>
    <separator/>
    <item label="Vertical tiling">
      <action name="Execute">
        <execute>x-tile v</execute>
      </action>
    </item>
    <item label="Horizontal tiling">
      <action name="Execute">
        <execute>x-tile h</execute>
      </action>
    </item>
    <item label="Triangle-up">
      <action name="Execute">
        <execute>x-tile u</execute>
      </action>
    </item>
    <item label="Triangle-down">
      <action name="Execute">
        <execute>x-tile d</execute>
      </action>
    </item>
    <item label="Triangle-left">
      <action name="Execute">
        <execute>x-tile l</execute>
      </action>
    </item>
    <item label="Triangle-right">
      <action name="Execute">
        <execute>x-tile r</execute>
      </action>
    </item>
    <item label="Quarter tiling">
      <action name="Execute">
        <execute>x-tile q</execute>
      </action>
    </item>
    <item label="Custom tiling 1">
      <action name="Execute">
        <execute>x-tile 1</execute>
      </action>
    </item>
    <item label="Custom tiling 2">
      <action name="Execute">
        <execute>x-tile 2</execute>
      </action>
    </item>
    <separator/>
    <item label="Close all">
      <action name="Execute">
        <execute>x-tile c</execute>
      </action>
    </item>
    <item label="Maximize all">
      <action name="Execute">
        <execute>x-tile m</execute>
      </action>
    </item>
    <item label="Un-maximize all">
      <action name="Execute">
        <execute>x-tile M</execute>
      </action>
    </item>
    <separator/>
    <item label="Open x-tile">
      <action name="Execute">
        <execute>x-tile w</execute>
      </action>
    </item>
  </menu>
</menu>
</openbox_menu>

Since I have a kind of "start menu" paradigm for my applications, I use the x-tile menu above alongside the client-list-menu as my right-click menu in the Openbox root window (and tint2 by way of the wm_menu config option)