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magerlab · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 730

There's a new version of openbox window manager 3.5

http://openbox.org/wiki/Openbox:Download
New alt-tab dialog shows windows in a vertical list.
Improved Xinerama support.
Allow icons in menus.
Theme options for prompt dialogs (osd.button.unpressed.*, osd.button.pressed.*, osd.button.focused.*)
Addresses bug #4877, #4596, #4617, #4752, #4663, #4662, #4586, #2319, #4341, #4519, #4543, #4503, #4355, #4072, #3702, #4284
Lots of additional bug fixes and performance improvements

it would be good to include this in puppy

BarryK · Posted: Sat 12 Nov 2011, 18:13 Post subject:

icons in menus, now that is interesting!

Downloading it now!

Peterm321 · Joined: 29 Jan 2009 Posts: 196

A brief summary of the features of Openbox can be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openbox

puppyluvr · Posted: Sun 13 Nov 2011, 01:14 Post subject:

Hello,
Here is a pet for testing etc...

stu90 · Posted: Sun 13 Nov 2011, 02:44 Post subject:

Been using 3.5 for a while in pup - i believe it is also default in GuyDog.

un-named-one · Joined: 15 May 2011 Posts: 30

Hey, An openbox pet. I'll probably give it a try since I'm not very impressed with jwm in Slacko.

Eyes-Only · Posted: Mon 14 Nov 2011, 12:51 Post subject:

Thanks for the .pet PuppyLuvr! I can't wait to give this a trial run in one of my newer Puppy installs here! Woohoo!! And icons in the menus sounds interesting to say the least! Very Happy

Thanks again for your contributions - and to Magerlab for having brought this to everyone's attention as well. Way to go Magerlab! Cool

Myself, I've always loved using the simplicity of either LX or FBpanel & Openbox - or for that real minimalistic feel - just the plain Openbox session itself due to it being so low and non-demanding upon my computers resources. That's when Puppy TRULY flies like a nuclear-powered rocket!

Cheers/Amicalement,

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge d'Acadie"

magerlab · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 730

I use openbox as mmy main window manager since i found it some 4 years ago i think.. jwm and icewm are also good but openbox is more stable and serves wery well:)

as fo icons in menu - i haven't tried this yet. It's supposed to add a path to icon to each menu entry manually, so some script is needed to add all icons Smile

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

The .pet posted here will need the patch to build a menu using fixmenus and obconf. I will see if I can find them on my cluttered har drive Smile

Meantime, if anybody wants to try Openbox/Fbpanel in Slacko, there is a pre-configured build available from the package manager, which patches menu building etc and includes obconf.

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

OK, here is the patch for fixmenus. Just install and run fixmenus in terminal to build an Openbox menu. No icons though, sorry Smile

Obconf is proving more tricky due to missing libs.... on it.

puppyluvr · Posted: Mon 14 Nov 2011, 13:50 Post subject:

Hello,
Yes, this pet only works ootb on lupu series, as the libs OB needs are already present...

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1497 Location: Ontario Canada

I downloaded pemasu's openbox pet which has obconf included and
installed that.Then I compiled and installed the openbox-3.5.0.tar.gz
It's working fine in wary 52190.

http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/pet_packages-exprimo/

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

Here is obconf, the configuration GUI for Openbox, and the lib pack for Slacko.

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

Slacko, OB from Puppyluvver. Nice and minimal Smile