Dear Grant, I would sincerely second Openbox + tint2. That's my all times favourite. Bear in mind that the stable tint2wizard/conf doesn't handle the Launcher properly. For that you need to emerge tint2 with the testing "~amd64" flag :). There are some additional goodies in the more modern tint2 panel, too.
Best regards, Andy On 29 September 2016 at 21:52, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2016-09-25, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I liked openbox though, so if LXDE refuses to handle multiple > >> screens I may stick with openbox and try to find some other panel > >> program that does work with multiple screens. > > I gave up on LXDE. I messed around with it a bit more and it seems to > have a hard-wired assumption that computers are single-user and > single-screen. Besides that, the LXDE community also seems to be > rather small/inactive. I posted questions about multi-screen use to > the LXDE forum, but the user forum only has a couple of posts per > month, and few of them ever get any responses. > > > Openbox+tint2 looks promising. > > That's what I've settled on. It took a couple hours of fiddling to > setup a startup script, configure the panels, the window manager > itself, and build a root window menu that's close enough to my old one > that I don't flail about like Donald Trump making fun of the > handicapped. > > For generating an openbox root menu, I recommend obmenu-generator. > > > I still have to figure out one last tweak to openbox's behavior. When > > you do ctrl-alt-right/left it switches virtual desktops on the screen > > that has input focus, and I want it to switch on the screen where the > > mouse pointer is. I know it's trivial, and all you have to do is > > click before hitting ctrl-alt-right/left. > > I haven't figured that out yet, so I'll have to adapt. :) > > -- > Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Does someone from > at PEORIA have a SHORTER > gmail.com ATTENTION span than me? > > >
