I want to press a key combination in OpenBox and have a terminal appear below my resized Chromium window

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Published on 2012-09-09T08:18:52Z Indexed on 2012/09/09 9:40 UTC
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This is one of those things that looks like it might have a simple solution but is rather time consuming once you start investigating PyTile, Xnee and the likes.

I know, I should just use a tiling window manager etc., but I suppose it can be done in OpenBox, and I am just hoping somebody already has a working solution.

Ok, so I want to press a key combination while I am in an OpenBox session (Lubuntu LXDE to be more precise) and have my terminal appear below my then resized Chromium window (say ~60% Chromium and ~40% Terminal).

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