Openbox Was My First Window Manager (It's Still Great!)

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The very first standalone window manager that I ever used was Openbox. That was about 15 years ago, but I have used Openbox off-and-on several times of those years. But not recently. So today, I'm revisiting my old Openbox configs that I haven't tried out in probably 4 or 5 years.
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@somethingcoolgoeshere Год назад

Your video on Linux Mint where you install Openbox was my introduction to Openbox and I love it. Rocking a Dracula theme and its my favorite

@ariathyf144 Год назад

Nice Konata avatar :)

@somethingcoolgoeshere Год назад

@@ariathyf144 thanks!!

@penguin2137 Год назад

Openbox content is always delight to watch. Even though I had a hard time customising OB on my own, because I wasn't able to sort some things out, I might try this again some other day.

@ArniesTech Год назад

Standalone OpenBox is my go to solutions for super ancient or really weak computers 💪💪

@b00gi3 2 месяца назад

Awesome demo dude, very inspiring. Want to try it sometime.

@Malloc42 Год назад

Having "Exit" and "Web Browser" next to each other on the menu would be fraught with danger for me. ;) Thanks for the demo!

@cybersechs1368 Год назад

BunsenLabs distro has one of the BEST OpenBox setup configs, can you do a revisit review on that? It's a descendent of CrunchBang

@greatwavefan397 Год назад

Could you elaborate on that? I've heard that BunsenLabs is a great lightweight distro.

@cybersechs1368 Год назад

@@greatwavefan397 Yeah it is, you get around ~600mb RAM usage. Uses OPENBOX and Tint2 bars. Has a conky window. And it's based on Debian. I used to use ARCH, but got sick and tired of having to run a system update every day. BL distro is great in that its Debian(SLOW updates) based.

@BhagwantRai654 10 месяцев назад

Crunchbangplusplus is better, it's less bloated and stays true to what crunchbang is supposed to be.

@LinuxOpenboxFollower. Год назад

I Love Openbox, Its my daly-driver, but not as complicated as yours, but I do wish there would be more info and up to date tutorials around.

@PlanetLinuxChannel Год назад

I always jump back and forth between complete and “cohesive” DEs like GNOME and minimalistic (but still floating) Windows Managers like this. But it’s been a while since I’ve tried Open Box. I’ll have to give it another go, and perhaps do a video about it.

@phonewithoutquestion80 Год назад

I got a NixOS machine setup and stuff had just been kicking my ass lately, so I returned to Openbox, and it works as flawlessly as it can. So far I've obsessed over my rc.xml to the point it kind of works like Ratpoison, including keychains/keychords to layer my keybindings. Each window opens up maximized, so I have to set rules to unmaximize windows individually. I also use the workspace assignments rules, which are not that easily discovered. Of course this requires more manual intervention, but, overall my experience is very stable and (for me anyways) intuitive for keyboard workflow.

@m.m3633 Год назад

Could you share your dotfiles please?

@cubdukat 2 месяца назад

I certainly hope they’re working on a Wayland-friendly version of Openbox.

@thomaslee9655 Год назад

Hey DT, love your vidioes. One thing I always wonder though, is that an Angels and airwaves record in the back under the mugs?

@salt6873 Год назад

Hey DT, do you think you'll ever check out Hyprland? It's a pretty good looking wm for Wayland with a pretty nice compositor built in.

@christer8964 Год назад

Ahh! I miss OpenBox! It was nice and simple.

@BUDA20 Год назад

I always use OpenBox as "failsafe" for X11, is the desktop to fix other desktops

@muddyexport5639 Год назад

Thank you! Good vid and talk!

@zmlin Год назад

Hey DT! What is your start page in Brave?

@thierrybo6304 Год назад

3 years i use openbox. I spent a lot of times the fist two months configuring it, almost forget it since.

@marsdrums6298 Год назад

I do like this setup. I think it's perfect for people who want to be ex-Windows uses soon and don't want the typical Windows like Linux distros like Mint, PopOS, etc... It's nice but I am so used to the openness of AwesomeWM... Not enough desktops. :)

@fabricio4794 Год назад

You can Fel like a"Hacker"on OpenBox hahaha

@choulth Год назад

fvwm was my first love back in 1995, the then-standard WM in SuSE Linux

@Jeff_Seely 11 месяцев назад

Man, there isn't any worthy substitute for a nice light window manager with a nicely customized config. These are the heady days of open source. And as each day passes, I find myself only using Windows on my company notebook. I hate that have to use it but there is software that must be run on it to do my work

@eveypea Год назад

Openbox was my first experience with a window manager when I tried CrunchBang in the mid 2010s

@sys7emH4cked Год назад

Hey Dt, I have issues with xmobar panel with xft*font, I just use dtos xmonad desktop in my production machine and getting frustrated please tell me how you fix that in your own please please 🥺 I will be always grateful to you help me 🥺.

@besnikrrustemi Год назад

Hey DT, can you please make a video on how to install your emacs (with the plugins you use etc) on a fresh Arch or whatever distro with that new start page (without having to install DTOS completely).

@extremrams Год назад

Check out his playlists (church of emacs) - there is everything you are looking for

@Ferran-Gnu-Linux Год назад

An OBAL (an Arch's Linux installation with OB... ) flows like the wind on a pendrive USB- This is my experience. Highly recommended.

@SB-qm5wg Год назад

I enjoyed that.

@PARACLYTICC Год назад

Hey DT, I am just letting you know that I will never use a window manager because I am very happy with GNOME. This however will not deter from watching your awesome videos. Cheers.

@mago2007 Год назад

Ey DT, can you make a video about Homebrew?

@LoganKaval 7 месяцев назад

I have a question. What was your first distro? Mine was MX Linux. Now I use Debian.

@linuxrant Год назад

My logic is to use two-button keyboard shortcuts for often used keybindings, and three-button shortcuts for rarely used keybindings. Additionally It is also preferred to use one handed keybindings if possible so they can be used both in floating and tiling managers (one hand on keyboard) my closing window binding is SUPER+Q my logging out shortcut is SUPER+SHIFT+Q SUPER+SHIFT+C is a more of a fingerBINDING than a keybinding, as a quit app shortcut it is used too often...I cannot wrap my head around logic of that... SUPER+ENTER to open a terminal requires you to use both hands, which defeats the purpose of having a keybinding if you use floating window manager. SUPER+T makes more sense in that case.

@sprinklednights Год назад

What a coincidence that I wanted to tinker Openbox!

@bhaumikpatel7986 Месяц назад

Have you tried "waybox" sir ? and if yes then can you please share the steps of building it ?

@bigmikeobama5314 Год назад

i havent switched to a tiling window manager yet, im still on a DE. i want to switch when i get time

@louisshipman2929 Год назад

DT where are you from brother? We love your accent!!!

@tylerdean980 Год назад

Louisiana

@kutyajani249 Год назад

Since I've been using openbox, I've been at peace. No more tears, no more unpleasant surprises. No more bugs. It just works. Then when a major distro update comes, what will happen? I'll tell you : nothing...

@rudraneelmandal4741 Год назад

Hi!

@stevet7522 Год назад

Is openbix still being maintained?

@zeebpc 2 месяца назад

how to just show all list of applications without categories with openbox?

@patpopov Год назад

I'm getting crunchbang feels.

@Cowboy-Trucking61 Год назад

Will Openbox work on Linux Mint Cinnamon 21.1

@somethingcoolgoeshere Год назад

Yes it's working for me rn

@gehadsheha4775 Год назад

It should work on any Debian-based distro.

@Cowboy-Trucking61 Год назад

Thank You.

@somethingcoolgoeshere Год назад

You should watch DT's other videos on Openbox though

@fabricio4794 Год назад

Mabox...this Can Be Ma Box and Yoe Box...(no IMNABLK)

@holeefook3149 8 месяцев назад

Crunchbang

@jr_Linux Год назад

open box sounds cool i just wouldn't care to use a floating desktop as a WM. i'd rather just have xfce and install my TWM awesomeWM along side it,

@DylanMatthewTurner Год назад

I'd probably use OpenBox, but now that I'm used to tiling, I can't ever go back to floating

@thierrybo6304 Год назад

I use rbtile that i setup to automaticallly tiles windows on one specific workspace (one where i run only terminals) whereas other workspaces are floating.