On 23/03/10 19:40, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Thanks very much for the feedback. How difficult is it to build
> and install? Does it live comfortably with other WMs, like fluxbox?
> IOW, is it easy to select at boot between those two? Or at least
> to edit a config file, and just reboot?
I don't use a login manager, I select the window manager with ~/.xinitrc
to launch openbox I
cat > ~.xinitrc << "EOF"
openbox &
display -backdrop -window root ~/.config/background.jpg &
numlockx &
lxpanel
EOF
and the start xorg with xinit.
display is part of ImageMagick and draws an image for the background,
numlockx sets the numlock on the numberpad and lxpanel is the panel
Wen you install it it puts the default files in /etc/xdg/openbox/{menu,rc}xml.
Copy them to
~/.config/openbox and then edit them with a text editor. menu.xml sets the
right click menu
and rc.xml sets other things like the theme, window behavior and keybindings.
If you aren't happy editing xml you can install obmenu
http://obmenu.sourceforge.net/
(which needs pygtk and libglade) which provides a nice GUI to do it.
Andy
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