Openbox
Openbox is a minimalistic, highly configurable window manager. Since it supports the latest freedesktop.org standards and previous standards, it lets you use the latest applications (which may have been intended for use with GNOME or KDE) without a full desktop environment.
| Tags | Desktop Environment GNOME KDE Window Manager Blackbox |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL BSD Original |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 23 Apr 2008 12:43
Changes: Due to a mistake the 3.4.7.1, the tarball had empty man pages. This is now fixed.
- 16 Apr 2008 10:25
Changes: This release fixes a bug introduced in 3.4.7 that disabled feedback while resizing windows.
- 15 Apr 2008 13:12
Changes: New Openbox-themed prompt windows have been added. Translations have been updated. Rendering of some gradients has been sped up. An icon cache has been added to reduce the memory footprint. There are some minor bugfixes and new actions.
- 15 Apr 2008 13:11
Changes: Some bugs introduced in the last release have been fixed.
- 15 Apr 2008 13:11
Changes: The memory footprint has been reduced. This release fixes various bugs and adds some new options. Translations have been updated.
- All comments
Recent commentsAfter years of window manager griping, I can stop whining
I have been complaining ever since GNOME 2.0, when at least for a while it seemed that metacity was the only window manager that worked well with GNOME 2.0 and my old standby, sawfish, definitely didn't. I'm finally satisfied.
As of this writing, my only complaint would be the fact that obconf does not (yet?) cover keybindings, but the XML config file is quite easy to edit by hand and it took me only a few minutes to get the configuration I wanted, overcoming my frustration with metacity's limited configuration options.