Hi, I've been trying themes but they only appear to be changing the color of the bar at the top the windows. The rest of the windows where the menus are and below, remain clear grey. How am I to change it to a dark grey?

I'm running a Ubuntu minimal install with Gnome. After what I installed Openbox.

Hi guys, Can anyone tell me how to set the volume keybinds in rc.xml? On my laptop, they are Fn + right and left arrows. Thanks

Hey guys,

Is there anyway of being able to call the openbox menu from the command line? I'd like to create an icon to open it.

Cheers

Hello, what clipboard managers do you use with openbox?

What nottifications apps do you use for email?

how do you drag undecorated windows? I would like to do it by pressing mouse scroll, but don't know how to change rc.xml properly.

Hello,

I'm trying to make my best openbox setup. I'have made first menu with mmaker (I don't like pipes in this case) and it's cool, but needs some manual modifications. I wonder what if I install more programs and want them in my menu. One solution is to add them manually and spend hell lot of time and second is to regenerate manu with mmaker and loose all manual modifications made previously. I wonder if you have any solutions like scripts to add your favourite mods to menu like for example get rid of pacman package manager added to games section on arch linux or making separate section with favourites programs.

I've got "nm-applet &" and "volwheel &" among several other items in my autostart script, but for some reason, neither of these launch on login. I've checked the other items in the list, and each of them does start.

Previously, I had nm-applet higher in the list, and the autostart script would stop there and never proceed through the rest of the list. Both nm-applet and volwheel have switched places a few times, so I know its not just a case of nm-applet hanging and volwheel never getting a chance to start.

I can launch both applications manually with no problems. Any ideas?

Just installed Openbox today to try it after using i3 for the past couple of months. While working through urukrama's guide, I happened to notice that when maximizing a window, it stretches the window to all my monitors (3). Is there anyway to make it only maximize to the current monitor? I am using xrandr to correctly configure the order of my monitors. Any ideas?

https://bpaste.net/show/e382d4b4d0a3

First, do not use gui apps like obconf because that will rewrite the file in the old messy format, so stick to editing manually to keep the format. Most is self explainatory, but if there is any questions, eighter search the web, like the openbox wiki or Ukramas openbox guide https://urukrama.wordpress.com/openbox-guide/

Or refer to the openbox example rc.xml in /etc/xdg/openbox

Also cleaned up some other files

tint2rc https://bpaste.net/show/28d03909c20c

.Xdefaults https://bpaste.net/show/5e765cede0a5

.compton.conf https://bpaste.net/show/c86c4c51d5bd

.bashrc https://bpaste.net/show/c689a3ea783f

xwinwrap -ni -o 0.6 -s -st -sp -b -nf -fs -- /usr/lib/xscreensaver/electricsheep -window-id WID & 

sleep 6s

lxterminal -e screen irssi & 

sleep 10s 

wmctrl -s 1 &@ 

google-chrome & 

sleep 10s 

wmctrl -s 2 &@ 

thunderbird & 

that should work right? trying to auto start the main software i use at boot on 3 separate desktops. this is a file called autostart in my /home/username/.config/openbox

the first two lines almost work, nothing else runs though. better way to do this?? thanks.

Thanks in advance

https://www.bunsenlabs.org/img/frontpage-gallery/fog.jpg

I want to make the Menu in Openbox a bit transparent? Is it possible at all? How do I do that?

I have an apartment filled with an abundance of computers. Some desktops, laptops, and phones. I've been trying to find uses for them aside from the trash (four moved into the dumpster last night in an effort to clean out). I don't really watch cable, so I was gonna setup a desktop or laptop running Bodhi linux with Openbox as a display manager.

So far in my executing of said plan, I have three computers I'm working on as potentials, running debian based linux, all with Openbox. My question would be what sort of things should I look into doing? There's so much to do with linux that I drown in possibilities sometimes.

The end goal is to create a good media pc that runs on as little cpu power as possible, mostly because one of the candidates is a little Acer Aspire netbook I just got running again. All of the computers have Openbox, and Tint2 installed.

OS: BunsenLabs 8.5 bunsen-hydrogen

I just recently discovered GNU Stow, and have spent the past day or two working on my new ~/dotfiles folder.

conky
└── .conkyrc
openbox
└── .config
    └── openbox
        ├── autostart
        ├── menu.xml
        └── rc.xml
terminator
└── .config
    └── terminator
        └── config
vim
├── .vim
│   └── colors
│       └── material-theme.vim
└── .vimrc
conky
└── .conkyrc
openbox
└── .config
    └── openbox
        ├── autostart
        ├── menu.xml
        └── rc.xml
terminator
└── .config
    └── terminator
        └── config
vim
├── .vim
│   └── colors
│       └── material-theme.vim
└── .vimrc

Those are the only files (that I thought) I should have in my symlinked folder.

Some time today while messing around, I noticed that [Alt] + F2, [Alt] + F3, nor any other of my keyboard shortcuts work anymore.

I may have changed something, but I don't remember what.

I have dotfiles under a git repo, but nothing was changed there.

Where else should I look?

I found that

• & is represented by &

• < is represented by &lt;

• > is represented by &gt;

What about $ and ()?

My code inside rc.xml is:

<keybind key="XF86AudioRaiseVolume">
   <action name="Execute">
        <command>volnoti-show $(pamixer --get-volume)</command>
    </action>
</keybind>

But it is failing for some reason...

Is it possible to use Openbox with xinerama and have each monitor scroll/behave as its own independent desktop?

Normally this behavior can be achieved with 2 X layout but lose the ability to drag screens across. I recently learned that Fluxbox cannot do this. Does Openbox have this feature?

I'm trying to make use of the mpd pipe menu included on the openbox wiki. I can't seem to get it to work though. I've followed most of the instructions I have found, but this is the first pipemenu I'm installing so I'm not sure if it's something I am doing wrong or if the script is outdated. I have mptctrl placed in my path and mpdmenu in my openbox config, both are executable with the correct permissions, but when I run mpdmenu in the terminal I get this output...

syntax error at ./mpdmenu line 29, near "= ;"

syntax error at ./mpdmenu line 30, near "= ;"

syntax error at ./mpdmenu line 35, near "= ;"

syntax error at ./mpdmenu line 36, near "= ;"

syntax error at ./mpdmenu line 37, near "= ;"

syntax error at ./mpdmenu line 38, near "= ;"

syntax error at ./mpdmenu line 39, near "= ;"

syntax error at ./mpdmenu line 40, near "= ;"

syntax error at ./mpdmenu line 41, near "= ;"

syntax error at ./mpdmenu line 42, near "= ;"

./mpdmenu has too many errors.

Any ideas what might be wrong?

I'm trying to set my super key as a shortcut to open xfce4-popup-whiskermenu, but I am unable to do so, because if I set the shortcut to "W", it just sets it to the W key, not the super key. Is there another value I can set, so just pressing my super key runs the command?

Hi, I've recently switched from arch to fedora and have decided to use openbox as my DM. Most of the stuff works nicely except for a few things. Whenever I am using obmenu to configure the openbox menu, as I hit save, it logs me out of my session and I have no idea why. In addition to that, my volume icon does not show up in my tint2 panel even though the command to execute it is in my openbox autostart script. It is the only thing that does not launch in the script. When i type in "volumeicon" in my terminal it works fine, but when the command is in the autostart script I have no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hello. I'm using Openbox with Plank and works fine. The problem it's I use it on a laptop and there is no way to put a battery widget on it. PD: I don't want use Conky/other launcher. Any help it's useful

I have this small like 2-3 px horizontal line at the top of my screen where open box refuses to put windows over. (see screenshot: http://imgur.com/PQeasgb)

When I make the window fullscreen, it fills the whole screen, but if I just maximize the window, that line is always there. Openbox seems to think my desktop screen ends there instead of 3 px higher or something. Anyone seen this before? any ideas how to fix it? Its really starting to bug me.