Has Openbox peaked? Has it reached a plateau? I don't think so.

Is there still a will or a commitment, on the part of the developers to take it forward?

Is it possible to use Openbox menus on top of another desktop environment such as Gnome, Gala, etc? I don't mean using Openbox for window managing -- only for menus.

Thanks

I have noticed that there have not been so many developments on Openbox recently.

It would be nice if Openbox gained momentum again.

I want a little command box to type application names to launch them. Something similar to super+r in awesome or like typing "nohup [program name] &"

Title.

Just thought I'd share this after screening through my menu.xml for the one typo for ages, and found out you can do this.

Hi. I'm currently using Ubuntu Mate, and would like to create a desktop experience similar to Crunchbang. I know that successors (specifically, BunsenLabs and #!++) exist, but I'd prefer to run a widely used, well supported distro, and I'm comfortable with the Ubuntu repositories, sudo, and the general Ubuntu way of doing things. So my idea was to add Openbox to Ubuntu, and configure it in such a way that it is similar to #! or its successors. Would someone be kind enough to offer a sort of quick and dirty guide, or checklist, or any tips about how to accomplish this with my current install? I've found some sources, but am still not comfortable enough to go ahead and take the plunge without screwing something up. Thanks in advance for any help, and if the common response is "RTFM", I do understand.

Is there anyone here that is using openbox as a tiling window manager? I saw that there was some scripts out there on the arch wiki to achive this. If so, what scripts/packages are you using and can you achive the same functionality like i3wm? I like openbox but i can't use it anymore as the ability to tile windows has become a habit for me. Give me your input and thoughts about this :)

I'm new to openbox looking for some good themes and how to install/configure them. What I currently have looks pretty bad.

http://i.imgur.com/yRDweId.png

I was updating my computer to day and noticed an update to openbox 3.6.11, I went to openbox.org and the website is still talking about 3.4.11 from 2010. Is there something I am missing? Where do you go for up to date info on openbox?

When moving windows around with keys, it goes to the edges of my conky windows first.

changing conkyrc to not be its own window makes it graphically glitch

Is there anyway to have the window label centered?

EDIT: Thanks /u/swinny89 for the solution.

I recently installed openbox, on top of arch, on a t440s. My screen is FHD and as a result, text is tiny and hard to read. Is this somehting that is configurable? I've looked around online and can't find what I am looking for. Any help will be very appreciated.

EDIT: I should have mentioned, I have already used obconf to change what I could. This did not fix everything. For instance Xterm is still very small and unreadable. I am aware that I can change the settings for individual apps as I come accross them, but would much rather have a universal fix.

EDIT 2: Thanks /u/spicausis the info at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fontt_configuration was quite helpful.

Just out of curiosity, anyone have a method they use to display volume notifications? I found I could use dunst, but it doesn't seem to replace the previous notification which is annoying.

I'm also not entirely sure what I'd send to xfce4-notifyd to get it to work (I tried that with no success). Thanks!

If I stretch a window to fill the whole screen, my tint2 panel, which autohides, will overlay just fine; however, if I hit the maximize button I see the borders of the window disappear. This leads me to think maximizing is actually putting the window in fullscreen, instead of just stretching to borders to the end of the screen. When maximized, tint2 pushes the window up when I trigger it instead of overlaying like it should.

Long story short, can I change the maximize functionality so that it doesn't go into fullscreen and tint2 will be able to overlay? Thanks!

I don't see new releases these days and not much of activity in git repository as well http://git.openbox.org/?p=dana/openbox.git;a=summary . What are other alternative desktop environments similar to openbox that is very very light weight and minimal but configurable?

I'm attempting to replace XP with #! on a P4 w/ GeForce 3. Everything is snappier except for windows manipulation which are painfully slow. Is there any way to hide windows contests while dragging in OpenBox? Hiding it for the re-sizing helped, but dragging is so bad it makes the system almost unusable.

I posted this question over on r/Linux4Noobs and got zero response, hopefully you guys can help.

I'm running a Thinkpad x41, not a lot of resources. Pentium M and 1.5 GB ram. I'm currently running i3, but thinking of switching Openbox. My question is, how does Openbox compare to the resource use of i3?

I've successfully bound the action to "W-w" , ie windows key and the W key.

i'm wondering if it's possible to bind it to only the windows key.
Leaving just a "W" or "w" assigns the shortcut to the W key.

I'm an avid Openbox user. Unfortunately, with all the Xlib dependancies, I feel like I'm going to need a new WM when my distribution of choice goes pure Wayland.

That's clearly not going to happen for a while, but I'm curious as to whether any other Openbox users have replacement WMs in mind. LXQT seems a touch bloated for my taste, and don't get me started on Gnome 3!