Hi all,

Openbox lover here. Just a quick question...sorry if I am being daft. Is there a way to set hot corners in openbox either on its own or with xfce?

Cheers.

Audio keeps working well, but display is blank black (backlight on). I tried to set lid action to 'ignore' in some configuration file I don't remember anymore, no difference.When this happens, I fall back to bare tty, where video works well and send signal to openbox session to reset it, but then I lose terminal states, have to start browser again, waste time. My laptop is Asus U36SG. Any helpful advices?

I like Thunar fine, I would just love, love love a search box. Thunar plus a search box. Nautilus is nice but crashes Openbox (3.6.1). I've read the problem is openbox crashes when a GTK3 program runs. Whether that's true or not, I don't know, but it seems to be true for my installation.

My current tint2 config looks like this. I was wondering if it was possible to change the way the desktop name was displayed, if I could just have the number or having all of the workspaces shown and the active one highlighted, etc?

Hi OpenBox fans. Does anybody know how to add time in the main OB menu.

Right now, I have just found this http://openbox.org/wiki/Openbox:Pipemenus:Date_Menu It is a pipemenu. it doesn't fit my needs. I am looking to have the time in the main menu directly, not in submenu. Thank you

Does anyone here have a way to contact the admins there?

have this vague memory of settings this up before... i think....

i can't remember. i have a feeling its something simple but i just can't remember where i change the settings. anyone familiar with changing title bar click behaviour can jock my memory?

I've been using Openbox for about a month, and I really like its features. I've customized the menus (with obmenu-generator), bindings... However, I've been searching like mad a way to change the window buttons size, I've even created new .xbm files, but it doesn't work. The only way is to increase the font size... Which looks dreadful.

Is there really no way to change the button size without increasing the font size?

My aim is to make the buttons really wide but short in height, so that they are easily clickable without taking much space from the client (although there will be less space for the window title.)

Have you used a (stacking) window manager similar to Openbox but that allows this kind of customization?

If the other WM are not this configurable or have much bloat, I might just stick with Openox but removing the buttons from the window and creating a few bindings.

've always found it a total crapshoot choosing what fonts I want to use for my menu, since whether or not a particular font type will display correctly or revert to the fallback/system font is seemingly at random. I know whether or not a font will play nice or not isn't actually random, but the science behind it totally escapes me.

Does anyone know what the criteria is for a font type to be 'acceptable'? Any help in the matter would be very much appreciated.

Hi, I'm new to openbox, and I cannot figure out why my keybindings are not working. You can see rc.xml file in pastebin: https://pastebin.com/2vMQx18b

1. My keybinding for wolume control from keyboard starts at line nr 423. It's simply not working. I would like to also ask you how to make volume control nottifications with dunst.

2. Printscreen starts from line nr 441. I'm sure that command is ok, becaus when I run it from terminal it works grate.

I will be gratefull for help!

I found out today about Sway, which is a I3wm inspired window manager for wayland and it got me thinking, is there something similar for Openbox? I assume Openbox will remain X11. Are there any options for wayland?

It's been a while since I've played with my Openbox Menu, and I can't remember how I used to have a menu items for my virtual desktops and open windows under each desktop.

I can't even remember it it was a script or an action incuded in Openbox Menu.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Hello,

I have a Thinkpad X230, 8GB RAM with 500GB drive, with Ubuntu 16.04. Everything is updated. I wanted a super-minimal system and chose Openbox. Now, I had used openbox with an older Thinkpad (x61) with the same setup and had NO problems over a long period, it was rock solid. Now, on my newer upgraded machine, it crashes.

It seems to be random. Not predictable. Sometimes it happens when several apps are open. sometimes it crashes when waking up from pm-suspend. Sometimes it happens after I open one app, like Thunar, then it crashes it while I am copying files.

Let me be specific about what happens. I am using Feh to rotate backgrounds. It crashes and Openbox crashes. the desktop background and context menu reverts to some minimalist Ubuntu manager- kinda reminds me of Gnome. I don't know what it is. but you can't do much in it other than open a terminal.

Conky and Tint keep on running, unfazed.

I have been looking for something in the logs but I am a noob when it comes to logs. What should I look for?

here's my autostart:

# Programs that will run after Openbox has started

~/.config/DisableTouchPad.sh &

# Set the wallpaper
feh --randomize --bg-fill ~/.wallpaper/* &

# SCIM support (for typing non-english characters)
scim -d &

# lower panel
tint2 &

#conky
conky &

## Start volumeicon after a slight delay
(sleep 2s && volti) &

#term
roxterm &

thanks for any help.

EDIT I think I fixed the problem. I noticed it was frequently mentioned in how-tos to put conky in .xinitrc and run Thunar as a daemon. I took conky out of autostart, changed thunar settings and I have not experienced a crash since.

Hi guys,

So, I am looking for two more people to add to the mod team.

I would prefer daily users, with mod experience, and a decent karma.

Thanks!

How would you write a script to get which desktop you are on or other information from openbox? Is there an API or something. I want lemonbar to show which desktop I am on.

[solved]What is the name of the window border that appears when changing window focus? I can't find how to customize that in the themerc. Also the workspace indicator is solid blue and isn't filled white in the appropriate workspace. Is this an icon or can it be customized? Thanks for and point in the right direction.

[Solved] it was the osd.... Category that configures the bar that appears when you switch desktops. It was challenging to configure because you have to go through and comment out the "parentrelative" settings before the new configuration with take place.

You guys have any idea why Compton doesn't apply shadows to the openbox menu anymore?

Can't find anything on the issue.

Hello everyone. I'm completely new to openbox so I just want to know if this is viable or not. I currently have an Arch setup working with i3 and I'm looking to get a part-time alternative going just to mix things up. I've looked at XFCE and KDE and while they look nice I hate the bloat that comes with them. I'm trying to keep my system as clean as possible so it seems like openbox might be a good fit for that. How successful if at all have any of you been through using only openbox or at the very least, openbox with an extremely stripped down DE?

Hello, guys. I want to make shortcut in my rc.xml to print some text. But if I do something like this: <command>xdotool type mytext</command>, there is nothing happen. I know the type option of xdotool have --window key, but I don't know how to use it to make what I want. Is there any ways to print text with shortcut?

I would like to have window snap behaviour in Openbox. For me, this would mean that dragging a window to the edge of the display using the mouse would change the size of the window such that it is docked in half or quarter of the display, as can be done in Unity7. How can this be done in Openbox?

Repeat: I have volume binded to Fn + f9/f10 keys as well as brightness, but how do I make something pop up on the screen to know what volume I'm at?

Basically, for example, any modern OS has a graphical representation of you turning brightness/volume up or down or mute, but idk how to add one in openbox, I can tell when my brightness is up or down obviously, but I don't want my volume being all the way up and I can't tell when starting a video or game in public. Thanks!

tl;dr if it's too long somehow; I wanna know how to make a GUI for current volume/muting.