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cdroncnatro Welcome to the community maintained documentation for Openbox! Please help out and add your own articles or improve the ones that are already here.

Contents

Getting started

See the getting started guide for instructions on getting Openbox up and running.

The compiling guide details what you need to build the latest version of Openbox, and how to install it correctly.

The upgrading to 3.4 guide walks through all the changes made since version 3.3, and there is a lot of them. Some of them mean new configuration options and features available to you, that you need to update your configuration to access.

This guide to using Openbox in GNOME has instructions for running Openbox in the GNOME desktop environment and getting things to work how you want.

This guide to using Openbox in KDE has instructions for running Openbox in K Desktop Environment.

This guide to using Openbox in XFCE has instructions for running Openbox in the XFCE desktop enviroment.

The details of the default configuration page lists all the default key bindings.

A list of some features found in Openbox.

This guide to using Git shows how to get the latest and greatest Openbox code for testing or developing with.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Configuration

ObConf provides a simple interface to configuring much of Openbox.

The autostart guide gives instructions on how to launch programs with Openbox at startup (when not running Openbox inside KDE or GNOME).

The key and mouse bindings guide shows how to bind actions to keys and mouse buttons.

The actions documentation lists all of the actions available for key and mouse bindings and the options which can affect their behavior.

Per-app settings let you set properties such as borderless or omnipresent on specific apps.

A configuration file for focus-follows-mouse. This configuration is similar to the default configuration, but has more suitable mouse bindings for focus-follows-mouse that won't interfere with your windows' stacking order.

A configuration file for vi-styled bindings (by Clay Barnes).

How to use Irssi-style window switching.

Themes

The complete theme specification details all of the elements found in an Openbox theme.

Theme file changes in Openbox 3.4.

A tool to help with converting blackbox/fluxbox themes to Openbox themes. (For non-xpm-based themes.)

Menus

The menu documentation decribes how to set up your own menus in Openbox.

The actions documentation lists all of the actions available for use in Openbox menus.

Pipe menus are menus that are generated dynamically when you open them. The menu guide shows how to make and use a pipe menu in Openbox.

There are a number of pipe menus available for download through here.

Other resources

Many Openbox questions have been answered in forums around the internet. Trying a search may be fruitful.

See Openbox:Community portal for other community resources and related projects.

Cool programs to run with Openbox

Besides the programs included in GNOME and KDE...

ROX Desktop

Avant Window Navigator

kooldock

wbar

idesk

visibility

lxpanel

perlpanel

fbpanel

pypanel

Tint Task Manager

xfce4-panel

Screenpager

Screenlets

gDesklets

Super Karamba

adesklets

conky

ObPager

bbtools

Oboinus

stalonetray

You can find lots of dockapps at dockapps.org. Some nice ones are wmCalClock, wmnd, wmix and wmpinboard.

There are other programs of interest in the Community portal.

Installing Openbox on Foresight Linux

To install the latest version of Openbox on Foresight Linux, from the command line, execute: sudo conary update group-openbox

Here's a nice user-contributed tutorial, which includes advice on setting up your Openbox desktop: Installing Openbox in Foresight Linux

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