Power Management🔗

Openbox does not load power management by default - you must load it, or configure it to load in autostart.

There are various options you may have available, depending on your distribution.

pm-utils🔗

pm-utils gives shell commands such as pm-hibernate and pm-suspend.
pm-utils on the Arch wiki has configuration details.

acpid🔗

acpid is a flexible and extensible daemon for delivering ACPI events, including events triggered by:

Pressing the power button
Pressing a sleep/suspend button
Closing a laptop/notebook lid
Plugging or unplugging an AC power adapter from a laptop

gnome-power-manager🔗

If you have GNOME installed on the same installation of Linux that you are using with Openbox (or if you don't mind installing a few GNOME dependencies) you can run gnome-power-manager - simply type or paste at the command prompt:

1	`gnome-power-manager`

Gnome power preferences provides a notify area icon, and lets you adjust the power managment settings used my gnome-power-manager. run:

1	`gnome-power-preferences`

xfce4-power-manager🔗

xfce4-power-manager appears to require fewer dependencies than gnome-power-manager.

Notify area icons🔗

Both the Gnome and the Xfce4 place icons in the notify area - this will hopefully work in most or all panels, including tint2 and LXPanel.