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Openbox
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| Openbox Window Manager | |
|---|---|
 Basic Openbox session | |
| Developers | Dana Jansens,[1][2] Mikael Magnusson[3] |
| Initial release | 18 September 2002 |
| Stable release | 3.6.1[4] 
/ 1 July 2015 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type | Stacking window manager |
| License | GPL 2.0 or later[5] |
| Website | openbox |
Openbox is a free, stacking window manager for the X Window System, licensed under the GNU General Public License.[5] Originally derived from Blackbox[5] 0.65.0 (a C++ project), Openbox has been completely re-written in the C programming language and since version 3.0 is no longer based upon any code from Blackbox.[6] Since at least 2010, it has been considered feature complete, bug free and a completed project. Occasional maintenance is done to keep it working, but only if needed.[7]
Openbox is designed to be small, fast, and fully compliant with the Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual (ICCCM) and Extended Window Manager Hints (EWMH).[8] It supports many features such as menus by which the user can control applications or which display various dynamic information.[5]
Openbox is the standard window manager in LXDE, and often set as the default for LXQt. It is used in Linux distributions such as BunsenLabs, GreenBANG, Lubuntu, Trisquel and Manjaro.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
The creator and primary author of Openbox is Dana Jansens of Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.[1][17]
Using Openbox
[edit]Openbox provides a right-click (or any other key-binding) "root menu" on the desktop,[5] and allows users to configure the way windows are managed. When a window is minimized, it becomes invisible. To bring windows up again, most use Alt+Tab ↹ or the Desktop menu, accessible by right-clicking. Or, sometimes, by middle-button-clicking. Extending Openbox with other small programs that add icons, taskbars,[5] launchers, eyecandy and others is common.
Configuration
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There are only two configuration files, both located in ~/.config/openbox. They are named menu.xml and rc.xml. These can either be edited manually or with the graphical configuration tools ObConf and obmenu.[5][18][19]
All mouse and key-bindings can be configured. For example, a user can set:
- a window to go to desktop 3 when the close button is clicked with the middle mouse button
- when scrolling on an icon to move to the next/previous desktop
- raise or not raise when clicking/moving a window
Pipe menus
[edit]Openbox has a dynamic menu system that uses "pipe menus".[5][20] A menu item in a piped menu system can accept the standard output of a shell script (or other executable) in order to generate a sub-menu. Because the script runs every time the pointer activates it, and as the script can assess environmental conditions, piped menus enable conditional branching to be built into the menu system.[citation needed] When the window manager is restarted, a static menu system as used on most window managers gets its layout once and will not have the ability to modify the menu layout depending on environmental factors.[citation needed]
See also
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- Fluxbox – another fork of Blackbox
- Comparison of X window managers
References
[edit]- ^ a b Jansens, Dana (November 2007). "User:DanaJansens". Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- ^ Jansens, Dana. "Openbox Developer Dana Jansens". Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- ^ "git.openbox.org Git - dana/openbox.git/summary". openbox.org. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
- ^ "Openbox:Changelog".
- ^ a b c d e f g h * Saunders, Mike (March 2008). "Lightweight window managers". Linux Format (103). UK: Future Publishing.* Сондерс, Майк (March 2008). Легковесные ОМ (PDF). Linux Format (in Russian) (103). Russia: Mezon.ru: 21. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 January 2021. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
- ^ GentooWiki (March 2008). "HOWTO Openbox". Archived from the original on 3 April 2008. Retrieved 7 April 2008.
- ^ "is Openbox still being developed?". Reddit. June 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
- ^ "EWMH Compliance Document". Archived from the original on 31 October 2019. Retrieved 9 September 2009.
- ^ LXDEWiki (September 2008). "LXDE Wiki". Archived from the original on 7 April 2015. Retrieved 28 September 2008.
- ^ BunsenLabs Linux (December 2020). "BunsenLabs Linux". Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- ^ "Rolling-release (Linux Wiki)". Retrieved 29 May 2014.
- ^ Lavergne, Julian (October 2010). "Lubuntu Applications". Retrieved 14 January 2011.
- ^ DistroWatch (August 2010). "Tiny Me". Retrieved 14 January 2011.
- ^ "Trisquel Mini GNU/Linux". The Trisquel Project. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
- ^ "Openbox window manager grows up". linux.com. 11 July 2007. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
- ^ "Manjaro - Openbox - Stable". manjaro.org. Archived from the original on 14 December 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ^ "Dana Jansens". medium.com. Archived from the original on 30 October 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
- ^ Openbox project (June 2007). "ObConf:About". Retrieved 7 April 2008.
- ^ obmenu:Index, retrieved 28 March 2012
- ^ "Openbox Wiki:Pipe menus".
External links
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