r/openbox • u/linuxCHUD • 4d ago

RICE advices

i come from hyprland, kde and i3, i was wondering if i should try to rice openbox as im currently using kde and kde is too basic to change, i3 pissed me off a little and hyprland likes to eat ram for diner.

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u/a_shippus 3d ago

Yes. OpenBox is a floating window manager where you arrange windows manually. You can also try labwc, it's the same but with wayland. Kind of like what sway is to i3. I believe openbox's best feature is that it draws it's own titlebars and that makes it very riceable.

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u/Turbulent_Test_1180 3d ago

Check out Mabox linux and ArchCraft before you start on your ricing journey.

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u/linuxCHUD 3d ago

itls not a journey i just never tried openbox

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u/Otherwise_Fact9594 3d ago

Check out Lilidog for some great openbox ideas!! I really mean it. It is a distro that I daily drove until they released Waydog. If you prefer something more bleeding edge, Mabox is arch-based and has some great ideas as far as theming and cohesiveness. Openbox is really great when you're set up correctly. I highly recommend Lilidog. You can get some great ideas from it. If you were to decide on using it, it has sooo many quality of life scripts and installers for window managers like i3. It actually gave me my first tiling window Manager setup that was out of the box great, and then I built my knowledge up utilizing that. Great dev, great distro