I know this is non-linux forum, but there is no"general" linux discussion forum. So here it goes. TinyME uses openbox and it looks very similar to fluxbox and blackbox. I have tried to research it, but I really couldn't find anything. One thing I was interested in was that apps had icons in the windows - very similar to xfce. I tried to see if this feature was available in fluxbox, but came up short. Any links or experience you could share on the openbox vs. fluxbox topic? Thanks.

john

I switched over to openbox a couple of weeks after installing Antix. It's a lot cleaner than fluxbox and"feels" more modern. It's not clear what you mean by"research"; either way, here's a couple of relevant links:


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< There's an Openbox section @ kmandla's blog, he's one of the most devoted openbox users i've seen __{{emoticon}}__


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< the openbox wiki for Arch linux (obviously, replace pacman with apt-get, but you'll get the hang of it anyway)

and the quintessential screenshot :


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< openbox plus xcompmgr and pypanel [rather old one, i'll upload a recent one when i get home]


The only thing that's missing in openbox is a built-in window tiler. Something that can be accommodated with


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grab one of the .debs, dpkg -i to install, and then type tile in a commandline to tile your windows (and obviously set a corresponding keyboard shortcut for it)

To make theme configuration easier,

apt-get obconf

and take it from there.

P.S. For a basic comparison of *box window managers check
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(!)

[update]

as the original author of this says"Openbox + Pypanel + Onyx Theme + NeutroniumClassic Theme + Bridge Background + Tweaking"

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Thanks! How did you populate your right-click menu? I tried the archlinux wiki

obm-xdg

obm-xdg is a command-line tool that comes with Obmenu. It can generate a categorized sub-menu of installed GTK/GNOME applications.

To use obm-xdg, add the following line to ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml:

<menu execute="obm-xdg" id="xdg-menu" label="xdg"/>

Then run openbox --reconfigure to refresh the Openbox menu. You should now see a sub-menu labeled xdg in your menu.

but I seem to get errors when running obm-xdg. Thanks again.

john

To be honest, I hand-edited my menu.xml , so I can't help you on that one.
It's located at ~/.config/openbox

here's a copy of mine:
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just follow this syntax:

<item label="label that would appear in your rightclick menu">
<action name="Execute"><execute>command/binary</execute></action>
</item>

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check this blog too:
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Thanks! I read the arch wiki a bit more carefully. I managed to install pypanel (from repo), created a startup.sh file, menumaker (from source), and nitrogen (older .deb package). Everything is going well. I'm really liking openbox. Like you I think it feels a bit more modern than fluxbox. Here's what I have so far:



john

P.S. I noticed that installing ob pulled in quite a few gtk2 themes. Is this your experience? Also, I did some research, but I don't really know what a window"tiler" does?

OU812 wrote: P.S. I noticed that installing ob pulled in quite a few gtk2 themes. Is this your experience? Also, I did some research, but I don't really know what a window"tiler" does?

Hmm, can't really recall what ob pulled in, but i'm guessing it's normal, and of no considerable size (?).

Tiling windows means re-arranging them in a way that covers the whole screen with no overlap or space in between windows/frames. For more examples (and some screenshots) look here:


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I am certain that quite a few themes were pulled in by ob - the same thing occured on a second machine. I wouldn't mind except I can't find the matching gtk engines so that the themes are properly displayed. A quick bit of googling and searching
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and I came up empty handed. Thanks.

john