Questions tagged [openbox]
Openbox is a lightweight stacking window manager. It is ICCCM and EWMH compatible and can be used alone or inside other desktop environments such as Gnome.
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With the Openbox window manager, can I force a window to have window decorations?
I am running a closed-source Java application in the Openbox window manager. The application runs, but the application's main window is displayed without window decorations. Presumably, the ...
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fbpanel: increase text size
I am using fbpanel on debian. In the config file ~/.config/fbpanel/default, I have this section which defines the "start menu": Plugin { type = menu config { IconSize = 26 ...
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Is tint2's "Hide tasks from different monitors" option always on?
I just recently started using tint2/Openbox through Archcraft, and I'm liking it a lot so far. But there's one little thing I want to configure, and it seems like tint2 is capable of doing this, but ...
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How to change or permanently set background image(wallpaper) in openbox WM?
Hey I just installed Arch Linux in Virtualbox btw with openbox, gdm and rofi. I wanted to set a wallpaper for the background. So, I added this line in the end of my /home/user/.bashrc file - feh --bg-...
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How can I find out what the most lightweight terminal emulator is?
I am trying to reduce the disk space by my system, by removing packages I don't or rarely use, as well as the RAM needed for my programs and background tasks. I need the terminal mostly for displaying ...
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Autostart openbox-autostart
I use the official image of the ubuntu 20.04 for NanoPi M4. It uses LXQT desktop environment. I'm trying to add a programm to the autolaunch. I put this into the ~/.config/vnc.desktop: [Desktop Entry]...
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log out from slim, or slim restart results in blank screen for several minutes
I am using slim login manager. when I log out from my session, or restart slim from the commandline: service slim restart I get blank console for couple of minutes, before the slim login screen ...
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openbox: change text and "box" size when switching virtual desktops
when I switch between virtual desktops, openbox shows briefly a "box" with icons of virtual desktops and desktop name (number). This is ridiculously small on my large monitor, I can barely ...
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change gtk-2 font only for specific application
I have changed general font size for gtk-2 applications by adding this to my gtkrc file: gtk-font-name = "Sans 16" this also affected the text size in the application "dock", or ...
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Convert GUI text selections, in place, from "UPPER CASE", "lower case", or "Sentence Case" to desired case with keybindings
I use Arch linux and Openbox window manager and bash. Everything is up to date with the latest available versions. Often I need to change the case of selected text that is the wrong case in ...
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openbox: disable "grab" window that moves together with mouse cursor
Normally in Openbox I can move windows around by holding Alt and grabbing the window with left mouse button. But sometimes I accidentally "grab" a window and then it is stuck to my mouse ...
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disable formatting when using cut and paste
I am using openbox as my window manager. When I copy and paste using Ctrl+c and Ctrl+v from one application into another, it transfers the text formatting together with the text. I have to use ...
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How openbox knows .bash_aliases used in its autostart file
I'm using two commands in a file executed by my .config/openbox/autostart.sh which are also aliased in my .bash_alises and one of them changes from time to time. The thing is that I also use these ...
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Openbox fullscreen alt-tab crashes
When there are any, programs run in fullscreen and i alt-tab or spawn new windows it will crash my openbox vid last 2 line in .xsession-errors.old: How are you gentlemen? All your base are belong to ...
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openbox: change brightness or contrast or saturation only for given window / application
I can adjust brightness or gamma of my whole screen with xrandr. But is it possible to only change these settings for given window in `openbox? For instance, if my browser is too bright and I want to ...
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