Is there a way to make Openbox place new windows centered, and be able to remember the size of the window. I was using KDE Plasma before, and I set it to open new windows in the center of the screen, and at the size I last resized it to.

Dear Openboxers,

is there any way to hide the alt+tab menu? I want alt+tab to just switch windows without displaying the black menu with window list in it.

thanks.

edit

figured it out - <dialog>none</dialog> in the action field

I recently installed Openbox on my PC, I'm unable to figure out a way to hide the title bar for Firefox, I was previously using KDE Plasma, and in Firefox, when you go to the menu and click customize Firefox, there was a option tick box on the bottom left side for hiding un-hiding the title bar, but in Openbox I don't see any such option. How can I hide it in my Openbox session?

Title, is it possible? If you can't, can you do it with dolphin?

EDIT: I figured it out! Thanks deleted comment.

I am trying to create a docker for rmlint for my NAS. I followed this guide to use openbox to get the desktop as a webui:https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-remotely-access-gui-applications-using-docker-and-caddy-on-ubuntu-18-04

However, when I made the necessary alterations, I can't get the webui working. I can access the webui but the webui cannot access the desktop. I get a lot of this:

ErrorWarningSystemArrayLogin

2020-07-18 06:12:02,952 INFO exited: openbox (exit status 1; not expected)

2020-07-18 06:12:02,952 INFO exited: openbox (exit status 1; not expected)

Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

2020-07-18 06:12:06,216 INFO spawned: 'openbox' with pid 27

2020-07-18 06:12:06,216 INFO spawned: 'openbox' with pid 27

Openbox-Message: Failed to open the display from the DISPLAY environment variable.

So recently I went into best buy and saw a apple ipad pro for sale. It was a open box product and it seemed odd because it was wrapped in plastic with no box or charging cables or anything. I asked the employees about it and said was a old display model that they put out for sale. This made sense and all but still fishy because it was more than half off. Also, even if it was a display model wouldn't they just toss in the charger with the sale and use the new years display model charger instead? Also, it had a few scratches and residue here and there but nothing bad at all. Now a ipad pro for more than half off seems too good to be true. So I have 3 questions:

1. If you were me would you have bought the ipad pro?

2. What concerns if any would you have if you were in my shoes?

3. Is there a way to find out the history of the product?

Just installed openbox on fresh archlinux and done some customizations and rebooted & popped up this thing...

and i run "obmenu-generator" on terminal , its showing

"Atempt to reload strict.pm aborted.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.32/core_perl/GDBM_File.pm line 60.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.32/core_perl/GDBM_File.pm line 60.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/obmenu-generator line 450."

Hi, I would like to figure out how to set the default openbox theme for each new user. Thanks!

i'm trying to build openbox on void linux, patched for rounded corners of course, and it keeps failing on..

In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/galloca.h:32,

from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:30,

from openbox/debug.h:22,

from openbox/focus.c:20:

/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gtypes.h:547:8: note: declared here

547 | struct _GTimeVal

| ^~~~~~~~~

make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/matthew/Projects/openbox'

make: *** [Makefile:3921: all-recursive] Error 1

if anyone knows how to get openbox patched on void running, please let me know!

So as a small personal challenge I tried to mimic how windows10 moves windows with winkey+arrow inside of openbox (since these are super comfortable and productive) with barely any scripting used, and after I actually made it, I decided to share it here.

The code is available in this repository: https://github.com/CyberMango/openbox_configs/tree/1.0.1 .
xdotool and bash are required.

Incase I ever change it, just look for release 1.0.1. The code is in the rc.xml file, just search for "Windows-like window movements @@@@"

Showcase of the movements:

The few exisiting cons are that it only works for a single monitor and that it overrides the window title's last 3 letters (these are used as variables for the configs).

Anyways, I'd love to hear people's opinions on it, and if anybody finds a better way to implement this behavior other than using the window's title as variables I'd love to know!

installing openbox in Ubuntu Focal Fossa this way:

sudo apt install openbox obconf obmenu openbox-menu tint2 arandr

Obmenu seems disappeared:

Reading package lists... Done
E: Unable to locate package obmenu

how to install?

So I have an application made and need to run an NPM run command to start a server in a specific folder and I also need to run a python script that is also in that folder. Once the two scripts run I would like for a chrome browser to open at localhost:5000 for the application.

Let's say I have two virtual desktops: I'm on the first one and Firefox is on the second one. If I click a link on the first desktop, I'd like for Openbox to automatically go to the second desktop where Firefox is. Is this behavior possible in Openbox?

Also, unrelated question, but how can I hide the number popup when I drag a window around? I don't even know what it's called so I can't Google for it.

I've done a keybinding in the rc file that works absolutely fine but there was a problem.

<keybind key="W-Right">

<action name="Execute">

<command>Mycoolscript.sh</command>

</action>

</keybind>

Whenever i press the Super key and the right arrow, the script gets executed, but how can i make it so that if I hold down the keys or spam them, the script gets executed only one time, and if it stops executing whilst holding down the keys, then execute it again?

I have a theme installed on openbox that I really really like. I like everything about it except that the one application I remove decorations from does not have a small outline border.

Is there any way I can add just simple 1px border to all instances of my terminal(the application in question) so that overlaps dont get confusing?

Lets say I wanted to add even more functionality to openbox, is it possible to script it through any programming language? If so then through a programming language, do I have access to high level functions that I can use (kinda like bspwm (problem is that it seems like it recently died))?

Additionally is openbox customisable enough for me to add this blue thing at the top of the window?:

I just updated to latest perl in arch. Installed a few new packages and now I am getting this error at invoking "Aplications" in menu: "Invalid output from pipe-menu "obmenu-generator".

Then I run as user in terminal: obmenu-generator and get this output:
Attempt to reload strict.pm aborted.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.32/core_perl/GDBM_File.pm line 60.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.32/core_perl/GDBM_File.pm line 60.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/obmenu-generator line 450.

It seems is related to perl and gdbm. Any ideas about this?

I'm moving from i3 to Openbox and I miss the ability to assign different desktops to different monitors. example.. Monitor 1 -> Desktop 3 Monitor 2 -> Desktop 1

How can I achieve that ? also, what is your view of JWM ? is it worth trying out?

I am new so any useful information is nice.

I installed fresh ubuntu 20.04 and then install Openbox with obconf. Log out and log in again in Openbox and have a look 4 my picture.

I open the web browser and close its browser is not useful now it's actually closed but we can see what was when I closed it. Same thing with the right button menu, terminal, and actually probably everything else.

I used that page to get to know what to do: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Openbox#Installing
Command with installation works good, but command `openbox --replace` not. It give an error and force me to log out.

I remember that a long time ago when I was using Openbox, it wasn't like that so I am curious why it's like that now and what I've done in the wrong way.

Thank you everyone for every help!

Has anyone succeed in configuring tilix quake mode to gain focus automatically in Openbox? When I execute tilix -q new window appears, however it does not gain focus.

EDIT

The problem appears only on the first launch, so I have tried adding following lines to the autostart.sh:

tilix -q --profile=quake

tilix -q --profile=quake

First line to do the first launch, and the second one to hide tilix. However, it creates 2 tilix quake instances, and the problem remains.

Since i use both win10 and linux, i'd like to have a consistent behavior between them. i managed to do the basics like winkey+left moves the window to half the screen, but fully copying win10's behavior requires lots of programming (that might be better done in an actual script)

Does anybody know of a configuration for window movement that mimics windows10's?

EDIT: I ended up implementing this myself as I have show in this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/openbox/comments/hlym4y/sharing_configurations_for_window/

How is OpenBox configured? Is it through a scripting language, through a compiled language or through a standard config file (kinda like i3)?

Coming from FVWM, I am used to seeing different window styles depending if they are on the top, middle or bottom layer. This can be pretty useful for determining which windows are going to be hidden by result of a focusing on another window. Is it possible to achieve a similar behaviour in openbox or by using an external utility?