Comments on: Openbox, the one-way window manager

By: How I became an Openbox fan « The Defiant

How I became an Openbox fan « The Defiant — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:49:21 +0000

[...] Then I found Urukrama’s awesome guide to Openbox, and I’ve read Kmandla’s post on how hard it is to stop using this WM. I’ve copied some sample configs, googled some [...]

By: magerlab

magerlab — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:37:22 +0000

i like openbox very much
use it even without any panel( or sometimes with tint with undecorated windows)

By: colonelcrayon

colonelcrayon — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:58:11 +0000

openbox —> dwm

*tiles happily*

By: ScriptDevil

ScriptDevil — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:12:50 +0000

I used openbox. I switched to evilwm. Then came wmii. Finally I am married to xmonad!

By: Blice

Blice — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:21:28 +0000

I’ve just recent switched from Openbox to Pekwm at work. So far I really like it- Configured it to be the same as Openbox, just now I have snazzier themes. Screenshot: http://cgi.alrig.ht/ss/src/122316539577.png

By: Dr Small

Dr Small — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:59:07 +0000

I’m an openbox user addict myself, and switched from IceWM several months ago. I used to love IceWM because I could make it look like XP, Vista, Windows 2000, and all sorts of stuff. Eventually, that got old, and I settled with Openbox. I use Pypanel with it too, a great combination.

I’ve tried wmii since then, and just can’t leave my perfect openbox setup. Sooo perfect. But I can’t get Openbox to work on Ubuntu (on the laptop) because the system freezes (literally freezes). I wish I could, though.

By: James

James — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:15:30 +0000

*waves*

I can’t *stand* how Openbox won’t respect panels/taskbars.
(Try it yourself! Launch a 3rd party taskbar and position it at the top of the screen. Unlike IceWM, XFCE4, and Gnome, Openbox doen’t prevent you from accedentally dragging a window’s title frame under it. Quite annoying to have to constantly have to alt-drag the window out.) I open a ton of windows, and alt-tab just isn’t enough (though skippy was a step in the right direction).

I went from Openbox to IceWM. As I upgraded from one machine to another, I went to XFCE4, and now Gnome with Compiz-Fusion.

I dunno. I just got tired of poking at config files and tweaking things. It’s not that I can’t, I just have better things to do with my time. Convenience and integration are large motivators.

By: devnet

devnet — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:10:30 +0000

I love openbox.

My desktop: http://linux-blog.org/uploads/Posts/openbox3461-screenshot.png

It’s the best feeling WM out there imho.

By: aaron.brown

aaron.brown — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:34:07 +0000

I actually started using Openbox because of your blog! As for the actual question, no, I haven’t been able to switch. I’ve tried others. Many are very nice, but I always go back to Openbox.

aaron

By: king.pest

king.pest — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:19:06 +0000

I always had a similar problem with switching from fluxbox to openbox. Why leave fluxbox if it works well? The screenshots are nice, though:)