Openbox
Openbox is a window manager for the X11 windowing system. It
was originally based on Blackbox
and currently remains very similar,
even using Blackbox
styles (with available extensions) for its themeing.
Openbox works with your applications, and makes your desktop
easier to manage. This is because the approach to its development was
the
opposite of what seems to be the general case for window managers.
Openbox was written first to comply with standards and to work
properly.
Only when that was in place did the team turn to the visual interface.
Openbox is fully functional as a stand-alone working
environment, or can be used as a drop-in replacement for the default
window manager in
the GNOME
or KDE
desktop environments.
Openbox is designed to be small, fast, and fully compliant
with the Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual (ICCCM) and
Extended Window Manager Hints (EWMH).
Openbox 3.5.0
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Price
Free to download
Size
0.8MB
License
GNU GPL v2
Developer
Mikael Magnusson, Dana Jansens, Derek Foreman, Tore
Anderson, Audun Hove and others
Website
openbox.org
System Requirements
To compile:
C compiler
libc, Xlib, Glib-2, LibXML-2, Pango, Startup-notification, XCursor
library and headers
Pkg-config
libobparser16
libobrender16
Support
Sites:
Documentation,
FAQ,
Mailing
List
Selected
Reviews:
The
Linux Critic
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Features include:
- Very fast
- Anti Aliased fonts
- NetWM support
- Chainable key bindings
- Customizable mouse actions
- Window resistance (Window-to-Window and Window-to-Edge
snapping)
- Placement options:
- Smart
- Cascade
- Under Mouse
- Click Mouse
- Multi-head Xinerama support
- Pipe menus
- Workspace warping
- Customizable style engine
- Windowmaker Dock App support
- Toolbar
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