OPENBOX(1)OPENBOX(1)NAMEopenbox — A minimalistic, highly configurable, next generation window
manager with extensive standards support.
SYNOPSISopenbox [--help] [--version] [--replace] [--reconfigure]
[--restart] [--sm-disable] [--sync] [--debug] [--debug-focus]
[--debug-xinerama]
DESCRIPTION
Openbox is minimalistic, highly configurable, next generation window
manager with extensive standards support.
You can start Openbox in three ways:
If you run a display manager such as GDM, you will find 3 entries in
the login session type menu for Openbox: GNOME/Openbox, KDE/Openbox
and Openbox. If you want to use Openbox within GNOME or KDE, you can
choose the appropriate entry, and it will launch GNOME or KDE with
Openbox as the window manager.
The third option at log in, which is Openbox without a session
manager, uses the openbox-session command to start Openbox. On
log in, openbox will run the ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh script if
it exists, and will run the system-wide script /usr/local/etc/xdg/open‐
box/autostart.sh otherwise. You may place anything you want to run
automatically in those files, for example:
xsetroot -solid grey &
gnome-settings-daemon &
Make sure that each line is followed by a "&" or else the script will
stop there and further commands will not be executed. You can use the
/usr/local/etc/xdg/openbox/autostart.sh file as an example for creating
your own.
The default /usr/local/etc/xdg/openbox/autostart.sh runs a number of
things with Openbox.
Lastly, if you use startx to launch your X session, you can set up a
~/.xinitrc file to run openbox-session and follow the same directions
as above regarding the autostart.sh file.
You can use the obconf tool to configure Openbox easily with a graphi‐
cal interface, however more in-depth configuration is possible by edit‐
ing the configuration files by hand.
The default configuration and menu files are installed in
/usr/local/etc/xdg/openbox/, and the user configuration is placed in
~/.config/openbox/. You can copy the default configuration and menus to
~/.config/openbox and edit it to your liking.
OPTIONS
These are the possible options that openbox accepts:
--help Show a summary of the command line options available and
exit.
--version Show the version of the program and exit.
--replace Replace the currently running window manager.
--config-file FILE
Specify the path to the config file to use.
--reconfigure
If Openbox is already running on the display, tell it to
reload its configuration.
--restart If Openbox is already running on the display, tell it to
restart. This is useful if you have upgraded Openbox and
don't want to restart X.
--exit Exit Openbox.
--sm-disable
Do not connect to the session manager.
--sync Run in synchronous mode (for debugging).
--startup CMD
Run CMD after starting.
--debug Display debugging output.
--debug-focus
Display debugging output for focus handling.
--debug-session
Display debugging output for session management.
--debug-xinerama
Split the display into two fake xinerama regions, if xinerama
is not already enabled. This is for debugging xinerama sup‐
port.
SEE ALSO
obconf (1), openbox-session(1), openbox-gnome-session(1), openbox-kde-
session(1).
The program's full documentation is available on the website:
http://openbox.org/
Please report bugs to: http://bugzilla.icculus.org/
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