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Openbox

Openbox Window Manager
DevelopersDana Jansens,[1][2] Mikael Magnusson[3]
Release18 September 2002; 24 years ago (2002-09-18)
Stable release
3.6.1[4] Edit this on Wikidata / 1 July 2015; 11 years ago (1 July 2015)
Written inC
Operating systemUnix-like
TypeStacking window manager
LicenseGPL 2.0 or later[5]
Websiteopenbox.org Edit this on Wikidata
Repository

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, 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

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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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ObConf, a GUI configuration editor for Openbox

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

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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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References

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  1. ^ a b Jansens, Dana (November 2007). "User:DanaJansens". Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  2. ^ Jansens, Dana. "Openbox Developer Dana Jansens". Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  3. ^ "git.openbox.org Git - dana/openbox.git/summary". openbox.org. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  4. ^ "Openbox:Changelog".
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ GentooWiki (March 2008). "HOWTO Openbox". Archived from the original on 3 April 2008. Retrieved 7 April 2008.
  7. ^ "is Openbox still being developed?". Reddit. June 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
  8. ^ "EWMH Compliance Document". Archived from the original on 31 October 2019. Retrieved 9 September 2009.
  9. ^ LXDEWiki (September 2008). "LXDE Wiki". Archived from the original on 7 April 2015. Retrieved 28 September 2008.
  10. ^ BunsenLabs Linux (December 2020). "BunsenLabs Linux". Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  11. ^ "Rolling-release (Linux Wiki)". Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  12. ^ Lavergne, Julian (October 2010). "Lubuntu Applications". Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  13. ^ DistroWatch (August 2010). "Tiny Me". Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  14. ^ "Trisquel Mini GNU/Linux". The Trisquel Project. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  15. ^ "Openbox window manager grows up". linux.com. 11 July 2007. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  16. ^ "Manjaro - Openbox - Stable". manjaro.org. Archived from the original on 14 December 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  17. ^ "Dana Jansens". medium.com. Archived from the original on 30 October 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  18. ^ Openbox project (June 2007). "ObConf:About". Retrieved 7 April 2008.
  19. ^ obmenu:Index, retrieved 28 March 2012
  20. ^ "Openbox Wiki:Pipe menus".
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Openbox

Openbox is a free, stacking window manager for the X Window System, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Originally derived from Blackbox 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. 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. Openbox is designed to be small, fast, and fully compliant with the Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual (ICCCM) and Extended Window Manager Hints (EWMH). It supports many features such as menus by which the user can control applications or which display various dynamic information. 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, Lubuntu, Trisquel and Manjaro. The creator and primary author of Openbox is Dana Jansens of Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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LXDE

LXDE (abbreviation for Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) is a free desktop environment with comparatively low resource requirements. This makes it especially suitable for use on older or resource-constrained personal computers such as netbooks or system on a chip computers. LXDE was written in the C programming language, using the GTK 2 toolkit, and runs on Unix and other POSIX-compliant platforms, such as Linux and BSDs. The LXDE project aims to provide a fast and energy-efficient desktop environment. LXDE uses rolling releases for its individual components (or for groups of components with coupled dependencies). The default window manager used is Openbox, but one can configure a third-party window manager for use with LXDE, such as Fluxbox, IceWM or Xfwm. LXDE includes GPL-licensed code as well as LGPL-licensed code.

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CrunchBang Linux (abbreviated #!) is an unmaintained Linux distribution derived from Debian by Philip Newborough (who is more commonly known by his username, corenominal). CrunchBang was designed to use comparatively few system resources. Instead of a desktop environment it used a customized implementation of the Openbox window manager. Many of its preinstalled applications used the GTK+ widget toolkit. CrunchBang had its own software repository but drew the vast majority of packages from Debian's repositories. Philip Newborough announced on 6 February 2015 that he had stopped developing CrunchBang and that users would benefit from using vanilla Debian. Some Linux distributions have arisen in its place in an effort to continue its environment. Among the most significant are BunsenLabs and CrunchBang++.

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Grml

Grml is a Linux distribution based on Debian. It is designed to run mainly from a live CD, but can be made to run from a USB flash drive. Grml aims to be well-suited to system administrators (sysadmins) and other users of text tools. It includes an X Window System server and a few minimalist window managers such as wmii, Fluxbox, and openbox to use the graphical programs like Mozilla Firefox which are included in the distribution.

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Greenwood / Black Wall Street

Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.

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Which Supreme Court case ruled state-sponsored public-school segregation unconstitutional?

Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.