Openbox Getting started guide . This is a short introduction that is recommended reading material for people new to Openbox or upgrading from a previous version.

Details what you need to build the latest version of Openbox, and how to install it correctly. Using Git Explains how to get bleeding-edge Openbox code for testing or developing with.

Openbox is a minimalistic, highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support. The *box visual style is well known for its minimalistic appearance. Openbox uses the *box visual style, while providing a greater number of options for theme developers than previous *box implementations.

For help compiling Openbox, please see our compiling guide. Once Openbox is installed, running it is quite simple whether you log in through the graphical interface or through a text-based terminal. We'll first talk about the ways to run Openbox from a graphical log in (GDM/KDM), and then show how to run those same sessions from the command line.

If you are running Openbox on its own (not inside KDE or GNOME), the following will be available by clicking on the desktop (a.k.a. root window): Middle mouse button Open a menu listing all your windows

Openbox allows you to change almost every aspect of how you interact with your desktop and invent completely new ways to use and control it. Openbox gives you control without making you do everything. Take a look at the getting started guide …

With regard to Openbox menus, there are two types: static menus, and dynamic or "pipe menus". Both can be configured to extend the functionality of an Openbox installation.

How do I run Openbox across multiple X screens? In order to have Openbox manage multiple X screens (this is not the same as multi-monitor TwinView or Xinerama), you need to run an instance of Openbox directly on each screen. We've put work into making Openbox work well with other instances of itself, for this type of configuration.

Key and mouse bindings are created in your ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml file. You should copy the file from /etc/xdg/openbox/rc.xml to ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml to edit it, if that file does not already exist. Key bindings and mouse bindings both use Actions to specify what they will do. There are a lot of actions available to you. Here we'll talk ...

This page describes Openbox 3.6. If you have an older config that doesn't work in 3.6, please let us know. Introduction . Actions are used both in key and mouse bindings and in menus. Action syntax . Actions are specified with the <action> tag as …