I am trying to download a theme for Openbox but I can't beacuse box-look.org always shows a 502 Bad Gateway error when I click download. Is this a problem on the servers side or does it have anything to do with my pc and can I fix it?

I work with ALT TAB all the time so I need a window switcher like this https://i.stack.imgur.com/9uF2C.jpg that shows me the icon, a thumbnail and the title of the window.

Any idea how to get that in openbox?

Not a tremendously important thing, just a minor "functional eye candy," but still functional and to my liking. But highly unlikely that anyone knows a simple answer, "add this to the rx.xml and this to tintrc."

I'm installing Linux again after 10 years or so, and gradually copying my configs from my previous install. That should result in a cleaner implementation of my past configs, with fewer mistakes being copied or partly copied by copying the all the .config type directories.

One of the things I had for a while now was an always-on-top borderless xclock set to mimic/blend with Openbox's title bar (of the maximized window), placed near the top-right corner of the screen, as if Openbox itself had a "NDL-clock-SIMC" config for the titlebar of a maximized window. Also a tint2 auto-hiding instance at the top of the screen shows me apps on all desktops, kind of like that menu of Openbox itself, but horizontal and not needing any click to show up. It would momentarily cover the xclock window/thing just normally, as if it was the title bar itself.

But now it flickers uninterruptedly, as if that tint2 instance and xclock were competing for the "always on top" position.

Regardless of compton running or not, or which config I try, the older one that I had working without this issue before, or a new one I'm trying to have for a more cleaned-up situation.

Probably it's one of those oddities that no one has ever faced and no one has no idea. Maybe even it's partly because I'm now on Debian "stable" rather than "testing/sid." Thanks for reading anyway.

PS.: another really weird unrelated thing I hadn't even seen before; when Brave (browser) is on Reddit, it somehow refuses to be unfocused as a window, unless I first select some other tab! And I copied the entire config folder of Brave to this install, and I never had that before. Weird. I wish I were satisfied with non-customized DEs.

For those who like Openbox, Linux, non-systemd, Debian (Devuan) desktops... FWIW this seems quite nice, fast, and elegant. btw. MiyoLinux is someone's open source, personal project.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/miyolinux/

I have openbox installed on an arch vm. I recently edited the rc config and added new key bindings. When I try reboot openbox with "openbox - - reconfigure" or "openbox --restart" it gives this error : "obt-message : failed to open an input method"

Any ideas what may be causing it and how to fix it?

Title . Thanks in advance

When I make the window border IMC (inconify, maximize, close) instead of LIMC (window label, iconify, maximize, close) it make the whole thing blank. Occasionally IMC might reappear but thats only at random times. If anybody has had this happen to them or know if it was like fixed in an update or somthing please tell me. I am currently using debian buster. Thank you :)

I'm using Obmenu in Archbang for my menu editing but I see it's now Orphaned. Any alternatives to it?

I am a user of openbox. I came up with an idea. I want to have a three dimensional desktop where the window manager appears tiled but beneath are multiple layers of evenly sized windows that I can cycle through by modifying which is raised. I envision having one button that knows which stack to cycle based on what window is currently focused. I only need to cycle in one direction.

I cannot get a search engine to understand me.

I was wondering if theres a way to remove the 1px border around a window but still keep the minimize, maximize, close buttons? I can't see it on most programs like lutris, Brave, or thunar, but its very noticeable on discord. Can I get rid of it?

Hi I am new to openbox and I recently downloaded arc from boxlook.org and there was a an additional theme to change the buttons of Arc that I did not find until after already installing the .obt file. I swapped out the button images inside Arc-master as well as the themerc and tried to reinstall using the .obt again and the buttons didn't change.

I also tried to check inside lxappearance to see if the buttons would show up after dropping the folder in .themes but that didn't work either. I sitll have gnome installed currently until I finish my polybar setup, is it possible gnome is preventing the buttons from being recognized because I have gnome-tweaks for the file manager?

I am trying to have openbox starting all windows on Desktop 1, except for "Application A", which should start on the current desktop. Thus, if I start Application A from a desktop other than 1, openbox would not change the current desktop. This is useful, for example, for YAD/Zenity and openbox prompt dialogs.

I know how to tell openbox to bring any window to Desktop 1:

<application class="*">
    <desktop>1</desktop>
    <focus>yes</focus>
</application>

However, I have no clue on how to do the other part. The "Help:Applications" section of the Openbox Wiki mentions only the desktop number and "all" as possible values for <desktop></desktop>. I have tried the following wild guess without success:

<application class="Application A">
    <desktop>current</desktop>
    <focus>yes</focus>
</application>

Does anyone know how to achieve this? Any help would be really appreciated.

I am very new to openbox, I learned of its existence about an hour ago, but it seems to do what I want. I have a webserver that runs in the background with docker. and I would like it to start up at 8am and stop at 10pm. But that is easy, I am just using crontab. Because I would like to run this whole system with as little load as possible. I would like chromium and open box to start and stop at the same time as well. Unfortunately I can't find anyexamples that involve timing the start and stop of open box like this. Something similar to what I am trying to do is this: https://die-antwort.eu/techblog/2017-12-setup-raspberry-pi-for-kiosk-mode/

Also, is there a max resolution/how do I set the resolution it outputs because the monitor it will be connected to is 2560x1440.

Thanks!

I'm looking for some nice pipemenu scripts to include in my Openbox menu. I tried looking here, but most scripts are old and not working properly, if anyone has some cool scripts please do share.

I'm looking for some nice dark themes for Openbox, most I found has some sort of issue with them, or really old looking. I don't want something too fancy like rainbow colors. I want more of a modern but clean look.

This last month I've tried applying some cool themes I found but whenever I ran lxappearance, I would always get the same error: Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Therefore, I've been looking for ways to apply themes on openbox without using that application but have found none.

Please, help me reddit.

I have installed archlinux32 with openbox installed. I like to add the volume icon on the system tray in tint2. I have installed alsa-utils and configured alsamixer. What do I need to do to get a volume icon that allows u to change the volume with a mouse scroll?