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== Configuration ==
 
== Configuration ==
 
[[ObConf:About| ObConf]] provides a simple interface to configuring much of Openbox.
 
[[ObConf:About| ObConf]] provides a simple interface to configuring much of Openbox.
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The [[Help:Autostart| autostart guide]] gives instructions on how to launch programs with Openbox at startup (when not running Openbox inside KDE or GNOME).
  
 
The [[Help:Bindings| key and mouse bindings guide]] shows how to bind [[Help:Actions|actions]] to keys and mouse buttons.
 
The [[Help:Bindings| key and mouse bindings guide]] shows how to bind [[Help:Actions|actions]] to keys and mouse buttons.

Revision as of 11:46, 8 June 2007

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 configuratioon 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.

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

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.)

Documentation

A list of some features found in Openbox.

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

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.

A configuration file for focus-follows-mouse. This configuration has more suitable mouse bindings for focus-follows-mouse that the default configuration, 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.

Menus

Menu documentation

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...

kooldock

wbar

idesk

perlpanel

lxpanel

fbpanel

pypanel

xfce4-panel

Screenlets

gDesklets

Super Karamba

adesklets

torsmo

ObPager

bbtools

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

Installing Openbox on Foresight Linux

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

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