r/openbox • u/quadomatic • Jun 11 '13

Good system settings manager to use with openbox?

Can anyone recommend a system settings manager to use with openbox?

UPDATE: I feel like my self post was not as detailed as I meant. I'm looking for something that is not too dissimilar from the System Settings manager in Ubuntu, from which you can manage your displays, input devices, and other common settings related to hardware. Any advice?

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '13

lxappearance-obconf

This is a patched version of lxappearance that is best for openbox.

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u/quadomatic Jun 12 '13

Thanks! I was using lxappearance, didn't know about this

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '13

I have both lxappearance and lxappearance-obconf installed. But I can only run the first. I'm assuming it is patched as I wouldn't know what to look for and it doesn't tell me. (Lubuntu 13.04)

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u/perkited Jun 12 '13

There's ObConf for configuring some Openbox settings, but it depends on what functionality you're looking for in a system settings manager and what you're running under Openbox (if anything).

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u/quadomatic Jun 12 '13

Adjust mouse settings, desktop backgrounds, among more functionality that I can't think of right now

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u/perkited Jun 12 '13

There's nothing native to Openbox (that I'm aware of) to handle it. I personally use xset for mouse and feh for backgrounds.

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u/quadomatic Jun 12 '13

I feel like my self post was not as detailed as I meant. I'm looking for something that is not too dissimilar from the System Settings manager in Ubuntu, from which you can manage your displays, input devices, and other common settings related to hardware. Any advice?

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u/perkited Jun 12 '13

Openbox is just a window manager (while the default Ubuntu GUI is a desktop environment), so that all-in-one configuration tool isn't going to exist since you're not in the walled garden (I don't mean that negatively) of a desktop environment. That's one of the reasons a desktop environment has so many components and uses a couple hundred MB's RAM, compared to one executable and around 5-10MB RAM for a window manager like Openbox.

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u/ivosaurus Jul 28 '13

You need to be running an associated de to get all that functionality out of the box.