Contents🔗
Welcome to the community maintained documentation for Openbox! Please help out and add your own articles or improve the ones that are already here.
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rc.xml🔗
Configuration🔗
The configuration documentation has details on the various options you can set in rc.xml.
Application settings🔗
Customize properties such as borders, geometry, workspace presence, layering etc. on a per-application basis.
Mouse & keybindings🔗
Binding documentation🔗
Improve productivity and customize the function of your desktop by binding actions to key/mouse buttons (commonly called hot keys).
Actions🔗
Comprehensive documentation of all actions available for key and mouse bindings and the options which can affect their behavior.
Menus🔗
Menu documentation🔗
Describes how to set up your own menus in Openbox.
Actions🔗
The actions documentation lists all of the actions available for use in Openbox menus.
Pipe menus🔗
The pipe menu documentation explains basic use of pipe menus in Openbox. If you're looking for scripts there are many available on the community page.
Generating an applications menu🔗
- Scripts may be used to generate an application menu based
on the contents of
/usr/share/applicationsor other directories. See this section for a complete list. - There are also instructions available for getting a working Debian menu, if yours is not.
Themes🔗
Theme specification🔗
Comprehensive detail and documentation all of the elements found in an Openbox theme.
Openbox 3.4 theme file changes🔗
- Details differences between 3.3->3.4 theme files
- A tool to help with converting blackbox/fluxbox themes to Openbox themes. (For non-xpm-based themes.)
Desktop Environments🔗
Openbox in GNOME🔗
Instructions for running Openbox in the GNOME desktop environment and getting things to work how you want.
Openbox in KDE🔗
Instructions for running Openbox in K Desktop Environment.
Openbox in XFCE🔗
Instructions for running Openbox in the XFCE desktop enviroment.
Custom Desktop Environments🔗
openbox-session🔗
Running Openbox as a stand-alone window manager in part of a custom desktop environment.
Autostart🔗
The autostart documentation gives instructions on how to launch programs
with Openbox at startup (not applicable unless openbox-session is called
from the Desktop Manager/xinit)
Miscellaneous🔗
rc.xml Configuration examples🔗
- rc.xml Configuration reference - Lists all default key bindings and default configuration.
- Focus-follows-mouse - This configuration is similar to the default configuration, but has more suitable mouse bindings for focus-follows-mouse that won't interfere with your windows' stacking order.
- Vi-styled bindings - Two examples of Vi-style keybindings (by Clay Barnes).
- "Windows"/Super key control - Example of using the "Windows" AKA. Super key to control windows (by Deters).
- Irssi-style window switching
Feature list🔗
A list of features found in the Openbox windowmanager.
Frequently asked questions🔗
Compiling from source🔗
Details what you need to build the latest version of Openbox, and how to install it correctly.
Using Git🔗
Explains how to get bleeding-edge Openbox code for testing or developing with.
ObConf🔗
Obconf provides a simple graphical user interface to ease configuration
for new Openbox users.
Upgrading to 3.4🔗
Walks through all the changes made since version 3.3, and there is a lot of them. Some of them mean new configuration options and features available to you, that you need to update your configuration to access.
Other resources🔗
The Arch wiki has a lot of great information on setting up and using Openbox.
Many Openbox questions have been answered in forums around the internet. Trying a search may be fruitful.
See community portal for other community resources and related projects.