Openbox

<h2 id="using-openbox">Using Openbox</h2>
Openbox provides a right-click (or any other <a href="/facts/Keyboard_shortcut/mjeb82kI">key-binding</a>) "root menu" on the desktop,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17">17</a> and allows users to configure the way windows are managed. When a window is minimized, it becomes invisible. To bring windows up again, most use Alt+Tab ↹ or the Desktop menu, accessible by right-clicking. Or, sometimes, by middle-button-clicking. Extending Openbox with other small programs that add icons, <a href="/facts/Taskbar/uLQUAwz6">taskbars</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18">18</a> launchers, eyecandy and others is common.

<h2 id="configuration">Configuration</h2>

There are only two configuration files, both located in ~/.config/openbox. They are named menu.xml and rc.xml. These can either be edited manually or with the graphical configuration tools ObConf and obmenu.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19">19</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20">20</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21">21</a>
All mouse and key-bindings can be configured. For example, a user can set:

<ul><li>a window to go to desktop 3 when the close button is clicked with the middle mouse button</li>
<li>when scrolling on an icon to move to the next/previous desktop</li>
<li>raise or not raise when clicking/moving a window</li></ul>
<h2 id="pipe-menus">Pipe menus</h2>
Openbox has a dynamic menu system that uses "<a href="/facts/Pipe_(computing)/Yq77nJ6f">pipe</a> menus".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22">22</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23">23</a> A menu item in a piped menu system can accept the <a href="/facts/Standard_output/r92M7Wd4">standard output</a> of a <a href="/facts/Shell_script/NE7YvsBD">shell script</a> (or other executable) in order to generate a sub-menu. Because the script runs every time the pointer activates it, and because the script can assess environmental conditions, piped menus enable <a href="/facts/Conditional_branching/8gDQTqUD">conditional branching</a> to be built into the menu system. A static menu system as used on most window managers gets its layout once, when the window manager is restarted, and will not have the ability to modify the menu layout depending on environmental factors.

<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul>
<li>Free and open-source software portal</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Fluxbox/wSb6HjYx">Fluxbox</a> – another fork of Blackbox</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Comparison_of_X_window_managers/jep8H2I2">Comparison of X window managers</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Openbox.

<ul><li><a href="http://openbox.org">Official website</a> </li></ul>

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