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Mailing List🔗

The Openbox mailing list is a great place to go to ask questions about Openbox, and any help you can provide to others is always very appreciated. Please use the bugzilla for bug reports and patches as they get lost very easily on mailing lists.

You can subscribe to and unsubscribe from the mailing list at this webpage.

To post to the mailing list, send the email to openbox@icculus.org. (You need to subscribe before you can post.)

Archives of the mailing list can be found here (mailman) or here (gmane).

IRC🔗

Openbox has an IRC channel on oftc stealthily called #openbox.

For support, please read the documentation and use the mailing list.

  • ObConf Openbox Configuration Tool
  • Obkey Openbox Key Editor Tool
  • Kickshaw Editor for Openbox menus (GTK 2/3)
  • ObMenu Edit your Openbox menus from the comfort of a GUI.
  • ObApps GUI tool for managing per-application settings.
  • ObTheme GUI theme editor.
  • ObFilebrowser File browser and desktop application launcher.
  • Stylebox Theme editor for Openbox. This version is now somewhat out of date and looking for someone to pick up where it left off. Could it be you?
  • OBHotkey Command-line tool for creating hotkeys.
  • ObLogout Advanced Openbox Logout Script
  • ObPager Lightweight EWMH Compliant Pager
  • wmctrl Command-line control of your desktop.
  • MenuMaker Generate Openbox menus.
  • Denu Menu editor.
  • Clickity Provides mouse-click simulation like Gnome's MouseTweaks or KDE's KMouseTool, but doesn't require a desktop environment or accessibility framework and so is useful for people using Openbox standalone or in conjunction with a lightweight environment.

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