Openbox is a lightweight but highly configurable window manager.
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Are there any screen locking solutions for openbox?
If I want to use OpenBox then how can I lock my "monitor" when I leave the PC for a few minutes? Like the gnome-screensaver under GNOME.
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How can I automount devices with no desktop environment? [duplicate]
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Replacement for halevt?
I've installed Arch Linux on my computer and I'm not using a desktop environment. I just have Openbox window manager installed and bit by bit ...
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Command to move a window to all desktops
I'd like to be able to move (pin) an existing window to all desktops using a scriptable command, rather than through the window menu.
wmctrl -r <WIN> -t <DESK> will move a window to a ...
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KDE theme manager in pure OpenBox WM?
I've setup a pure OpenBox system with no specific desktop environment like Gnome, KDE, or Xfce, etc... It works well, and I have been able to customise the desktop's appearance with software like ...
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Lock screen w/ slock after a certain time?
I am running OpenBox in Arch Linux, how can I set it up so that I can have slock lock my screen after a certain amount of time (with no activity)?
Thanks!
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Keymapping problem when working with emacs and openbox
I have an apple keyboard and I had to do some remapping of the keys to make the mod-4 key the first key to the left of the space bar for when working with Emacs. The below script worked fine when I ...
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How can I assign a keyboard shortcut to a specific application in Openbox?
I use the web browser Uzbl and the window manager Openbox, and I wondered if I could configure openbox to add a keyboard shortcut to minimize / maximize Uzbl's window ...
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[LFS] What is the most compatible tiny X server?
I've been building LFS/BLFS for about a month now, with multiple failures and almost successes, and I've just been informed that there exist Xorg-like window systems that are incredibly tiny, as ...
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Looking for a simple X Window panel/dock with icon “pinning” feature from Windows 7
I am using OpenBox WM and I am looking for some simple dock application (that could be used along with OpenBox) that has this icon "pinning" feature. It can also be a panel. So far I have found this:
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unable to change window name openbox
I am using openbox and usually, I have a lot of windows on the screen. One window for the browser and a couple of windows to run a few terminals. The problem is that, when they are minimized, I am not ...
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Which run dialog
I just switched from the standard Gnome window manager to openbox (still running inside Gnome) and like it a lot. However, now I need a new run dialog, e.g. the thing popping up when hitting Alt+F2 in ...
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How do I minimize disk space usage
One of my machines is the 2GB EeePC Surf, a neat netbook with very limited resources. So limited that right now, I have 22MB free space left.
On it, I'm running Arch Linux with the Openbox DE and a ...
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Minimalist window decorations etc in OpenBox or similar
I am currently customising my netbook's ArchLinux install. I really like the minimalist basic style of things like the ThinMC window borders in Gnome, and the FullFlat Firefox theme. What options are ...
