%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ Openbox Openbox is a highly configurable desktop window manager with extensive standards support. It allows you to control almost every aspect of how you interact with your desktop. &lfs101_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download MD5 sum: &openbox-md5sum; Download size: &openbox-size; Estimated disk space required: &openbox-buildsize; Estimated build time: &openbox-time; Openbox Dependencies Required and (compiled with support for libXft) Optional (runtime), (to enable icons in the right click menu), (to show desktop backgrounds as seen in the Configuration Information section below), , , and User Notes: If XORG_PREFIX is not /usr, tell gcc about it: export LIBRARY_PATH=$XORG_PREFIX/lib If you only installed the Python 3 PyXDG module convert one of the scripts to Python 3: 2to3-&python3-majorver; -w data/autostart/openbox-xdg-autostart && sed 's/python/python3/' -i data/autostart/openbox-xdg-autostart Install Openbox by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --disable-static \ --docdir=/usr/share/doc/openbox-&openbox-version; && make This package does not come with a test suite. Now, as the root user: make install --sysconfdir=/etc: This option puts Openbox's configuration files in /etc/xdg/openbox instead of /usr/etc/xdg/openbox. --docdir=/usr/share/doc/openbox-&openbox-version;: this puts a few files in a versioned directory in /usr/share/doc. /etc/xdg/openbox/autostart, /etc/xdg/openbox/menu.xml, /etc/xdg/openbox/rc.xml, ~/.config/openbox/autostart, ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml and ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml ~/.config/openbox/autostart ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml /etc/xdg/openbox/autostart /etc/xdg/openbox/menu.xml /etc/xdg/openbox/rc.xml Openbox's right click menu can be used to launch programs. The menu itself is configured with 2 files, /etc/xdg/openbox/menu.xml and ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml. To make changes to the menu, copy /etc/xdg/openbox/menu.xml to ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml and edit it: cp -rf /etc/xdg/openbox ~/.config ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml can be edited with a text editor or you can install Obmenu (requires pyxml and ). To have icons in your right click menu requires installing before you install Openbox. To set an icon for an entry in the menu edit ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml and add an icon to the <item> tag like this: <item label="Mplayer" icon="/usr/share/pixmaps/mplayer.png"> Many other aspects of Openbox's behaviour are configured with ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml such as what keybindings are used to launch programs or which mouse button launches the main menu. Details of the theme that Openbox applies to window decorations are configured in ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml. You can get a list of the available themes with the command: ls -d /usr/share/themes/*/openbox-3 | sed 's#.*es/##;s#/o.*##' To automatically start openbox when you start Xorg: echo openbox > ~/.xinitrc If you want to set a background image to your desktop you can use and launch it from ~/.xinitrc just before openbox: cat > ~/.xinitrc << "EOF" display -backdrop -window root /path/to/beautiful/picture.jpeg exec openbox EOF Or if you like a bit of variety, put a selection of images in a folder (in this example, the directory ~/.config/backgrounds) and choose one at random each time you xinit: cat > ~/.xinitrc << "EOF" # make an array which lists the pictures: picture_list=(~/.config/backgrounds/*) # create a random integer between 0 and the number of pictures: random_number=$(( ${RANDOM} % ${#picture_list[@]} )) # display the chosen picture: display -backdrop -window root "${picture_list[${random_number}]}" exec openbox EOF If you like to have the numlock key set whan you start Xorg, install Numlockx and add that to your xinitrc. Another useful application is : cat > ~/.xinitrc << "EOF" . /etc/profile picture_list=(~/.config/backgrounds/*) random_number=$(( ${RANDOM} % ${#picture_list[*]} )) display -backdrop -window root "${picture_list[${random_number}]}" numlockx eval $(dbus-launch --auto-syntax --exit-with-session) lxpanel & exec openbox EOF Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories gdm-control, gnome-panel-control, obxprop, openbox, openbox-gnome-session, openbox-kde-session and openbox-session libobrender.so and libobt.so /etc/xdg/openbox, /usr/include/openbox, /usr/share/doc/openbox-&openbox-version; and /usr/share/themes. Short Descriptions gdm-control is a command line tool to send signals to GDM gdm-control gnome-panel-control is a command line utility to invoke the Gnome Panel run dialog/menu gnome-panel-control obxprop is a tool for displaying the properties on an x window. It has a similar functionality to xprop, but allows you to see UTF-8 strings as text obxprop openbox is a standards compliant, highly configurable, window manager openbox openbox-gnome-session is a script to launch an Gnome session with Openbox as your window manager from your ~/.xinitrc openbox-gnome-session openbox-kde-session is a script to launch an KDE session with Openbox as your window manager from your ~/.xinitrc openbox-kde-session openbox-session is a script to launch an Openbox session from your ~/.xinitrc openbox-session libobrender.so contains the functions used by Openbox for theme rendering libobrender.so libobt.so is the Openbox toolkit library libobt.so