Openbox is a lightweight but highly configurable window manager.
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How to Save X Session — ArchLinux+Openbox
I use Arch Linux and Openbox. How can I save the state of my current openbox/X session and later restart them?
The scenario is like this: I've several browsers windows open, terminals, file ...
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Openbox overwrites xmodmap configuration
I am setting up openbox on my laptop running Linux Mint 13. I want my Caps Lock key to act as an additional control key. I put the required settings in my ~/.Xmodmap file and checked it by running
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Is Openbox a non-reparenting window manager?
Installing jre7-openjdk prints this message:
when you use a non-reparenting window manager set
_JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 in /etc/profile.d/jre.sh
My WM is openbox, have I to edit the file?
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How does Menumaker select categories?
I am using Gentoo with Openbox and would like to switch which categories the mmaker (Menumaker) program puts programs into for my menu. But I am unsure of how/where Menumaker pulls this data from, and ...
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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 configure OpenBox session for opening files by mime type?
I've started using OpenBox and I really like it.
But my chromium opens everything with firefox.
Is there any fix for that? I'm looking for most lightweight solution, but also with easy and fast ...
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Setting same gtk/openbox theme in both 64 bit native and 32 bit chroot environment
I'm running Arch Linux and have setup a 32bit chroot environment inside a 64bit native install per their wiki instructions.
I've installed the Zukitwo and Zukitwo-Openbox themes via the Arch Linux ...
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How to get brightness keys working inside openbox session?
I'm using Openbox window manager without DE.
I'd like to get fn + [brightness up/down icon] working like it is in GNOME/KDE, but i'm looking for lightweight solution without gnome-power-manager and ...
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Stuck on Fedora splash screen after OpenBox3/tint2 install
My system was bogged down by Gnome3 DE and so I made an install of OpenBox3 and tint2 on a Fedora 17 system yesterday. Both were working marvelously. After a system reboot this morning, my system is ...
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Why do I have three different cursor themes at the same time?
I've installed LXappearance in order to change a mouse cursor theme.
After changing it, I seem to have three different mouse cursor themes active: for example, in Iceweasel I have the one I had ...
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Openbox placing cursor on the window titlebar
I was able to use one really neat thing. In many DE or WM, when you Maximize the window and then try drag the window from the Titlebar, the window would be Unmaximized. I achieved this by the ...
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Apple keyboard in openbox
I just upgraded from Fedora 15 to 16.
I am using openbox as an alternative to gnome 3. The problem is that I cannot find a way of using the multimedia keys properly in openbox. Changing the keyboard ...
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Qt application gray on OpenBox when launched from autostart.sh
I have a Qt application, I have added it to ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh like this:
(sleep 5 && /home/user/UI/UI) &
When I start openbox from terminal, the Qt application opens as ...
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Openbox doesn't seem to have correct environment variables set
I've installed Debian 7.0, and then installed Openbox on top of it.
I've got some executable files in ~/bin, and this line in my .bashrc and .profile:
export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
I can normally ...
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Having desktop icons with Thunar on Arch Linux with Openbox
I'm using Arch Linux with Openbox as my window manager. And Thunar as my preferred file manager. I'm using Zsh in case that's relevant in any way.
How would I go about having desktop icons? I find it ...
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File manager multifunction on openbox
I've just installed ArchLinux with only OpenBox, I need a file manager and a programme to manage the icons on the desktop. I read that PacManFM can do that, which other filemanager can do each task ...
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tint2 isn't shown on OpenBox
I'm installing Arch with OpenBox and tint2, but I have a problem to show tint2 with my non root user, instead tint2 is shown on root account. I followed this wiki: ...
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Running 'Leafpad' on terminal opens Gedit
I am running leafpad on the terminal but it opens gedit instead. Any Ideas why this happens? I am using Openbox btw.
