Five Tips For The Openbox Window Manager DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Mike
Openbox is ok but my favorite is Fluxbox... You've never really given it much of a chance... All config files just plane text files. MenuMaker works great to start the menu, tint2 is great nitorgen for desktop image and of course many of the the others you mentioned for OB... But the deal maker for me is the window TABBING in Fluxbox. Please.. please give it a REAL try... Use it for 2 or months and I wouldn't be surprised if you changed your mind about how you feel about OB. I used it as my daily driver for over 2 years. Even built a Karaoke machine with Fluxbox as the user interface that any level user could log into and start using it out of the box as they say.
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Openbox is ok but my favorite is Fluxbox... You've never really given it much of a chance... All config files just plane text files. MenuMaker works great to start the menu, tint2 is great nitorgen for desktop image and of course many of the the others you mentioned for OB... But the deal maker for me is the window TABBING in Fluxbox. Please.. please give it a REAL try... Use it for 2 or months and I wouldn't be surprised if you changed your mind about how you feel about OB. I used it as my daily driver for over 2 years. Even built a Karaoke machine with Fluxbox as the user interface that any level user could log into and start using it out of the box as they say.
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Russell
I just discovered that the bog-standard install of MX-XFCE is less ram intensive at boot up than my minimal install of Openbox!!!
XFCE: 460 M; 92 tasks, 121 threads, 1 running; Load av. 0.38 0.27 0.15
OB: 488 M, 66 tasks, 137 threads, 1 running; Load av. 0.44 0.60 0.26
Thoughts? Is that a possible issue with OB being 'feature complete' whilst XFCE/Xfwm can continue to make things lighter and more efficient?
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I just discovered that the bog-standard install of MX-XFCE is less ram intensive at boot up than my minimal install of Openbox!!!
XFCE: 460 M; 92 tasks, 121 threads, 1 running; Load av. 0.38 0.27 0.15
OB: 488 M, 66 tasks, 137 threads, 1 running; Load av. 0.44 0.60 0.26
Thoughts? Is that a possible issue with OB being 'feature complete' whilst XFCE/Xfwm can continue to make things lighter and more efficient?
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David
I want to take the photos out of background and put my own IN-- I found the file- usr/share/background but how to I handle files on here SAFELY-- doesn't it require SUDO and a risk of screwing up the system??? Can you help- they won't tell me til I download and INSTALL it-- I'm ready to-- IF I can find out how to do this FIRST and know I CAN without f.. g it up!!! THANKS in advance.
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I want to take the photos out of background and put my own IN-- I found the file- usr/share/background but how to I handle files on here SAFELY-- doesn't it require SUDO and a risk of screwing up the system??? Can you help- they won't tell me til I download and INSTALL it-- I'm ready to-- IF I can find out how to do this FIRST and know I CAN without f.. g it up!!! THANKS in advance.
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Francis
Thanks DT,! your videos, and time dedication is very appreciated. You helped
me a lot, answered some questions, doubts and thanks, back to Openbox. way
better workflow now, still learning, getting more used to keybinding,
learning the configs...!!! again thanks! I know we can be pest often ,
hopefully you will continue as long as you'd like, Take good care!
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Thanks DT,! your videos, and time dedication is very appreciated. You helped
me a lot, answered some questions, doubts and thanks, back to Openbox. way
better workflow now, still learning, getting more used to keybinding,
learning the configs...!!! again thanks! I know we can be pest often ,
hopefully you will continue as long as you'd like, Take good care!
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itech
I never used menumaker, there are dynamic others like openbox_menu (with lxmenu), obmenu-generator etc or even in tint2 I have jgmenu, also something that is great to use are the tint2 executors basically you can create what ever you need and even auto-update the info or buttons to play music or update system etc ...
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I never used menumaker, there are dynamic others like openbox_menu (with lxmenu), obmenu-generator etc or even in tint2 I have jgmenu, also something that is great to use are the tint2 executors basically you can create what ever you need and even auto-update the info or buttons to play music or update system etc ...
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Subuntu
I heartily recommend configuring Apwal on desktop left click for a fast and light popup launcher. I've used it with open box for heaven knows how many years.
Edit. Tip, use left ALT to left click grab a window and resize. Lightning fast and no struggling to grab a 1px border
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I heartily recommend configuring Apwal on desktop left click for a fast and light popup launcher. I've used it with open box for heaven knows how many years.
Edit. Tip, use left ALT to left click grab a window and resize. Lightning fast and no struggling to grab a 1px border
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Genki
Are there stylesheets and/or preconfigured conf files online (with pics hopefully) so that we can borrow the hard work that someone else has done - in the same way i now use Pling store to get XFCE's themes? Thanks, DT, for sharing yours. But, I want to see many choices.
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Are there stylesheets and/or preconfigured conf files online (with pics hopefully) so that we can borrow the hard work that someone else has done - in the same way i now use Pling store to get XFCE's themes? Thanks, DT, for sharing yours. But, I want to see many choices.
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Kaden
The only thing that stops me from using Openbox is the lack of mouse controlled window snapping. If I'm using floating the convenience of snapping windows with the mouse is hard to live without for my workflow. Otherwise it's a fantastic window manager. :)
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The only thing that stops me from using Openbox is the lack of mouse controlled window snapping. If I'm using floating the convenience of snapping windows with the mouse is hard to live without for my workflow. Otherwise it's a fantastic window manager. :)
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Panacea
I loved OpenBox but it doesn't like my pyramid monitor setup for some reason. If I open something on a bottom monitor, the top ends up on the lower portion of the upper monitor and it's really annoying at times. Haven't figured out how to fix it.
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I loved OpenBox but it doesn't like my pyramid monitor setup for some reason. If I open something on a bottom monitor, the top ends up on the lower portion of the upper monitor and it's really annoying at times. Haven't figured out how to fix it.
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Enderger
Hey, I think you should check out the LuaKit project. It has become active a good few months back and IMO it feels like a nicer QuteBrowser (then again, I hate Python with a burning passion so I may be biased) and may be worth considering.
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Hey, I think you should check out the LuaKit project. It has become active a good few months back and IMO it feels like a nicer QuteBrowser (then again, I hate Python with a burning passion so I may be biased) and may be worth considering.
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