Openbox
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Openbox is a free, stacking window manager for the X Window System, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Originally derived from Blackbox 0.65.0 (a C++ project), Openbox has been completely re-written in the C programming language and since version 3.0 is no longer based upon any code from Blackbox. Since at least 2010, it has been considered feature complete, bug free and a completed project. Occasional maintenance is done to keep it working, but only if needed.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Openbox Window Manager
- Software.screenshot
- 2010-04-24-133031 1280x800 scrot.png
- Software.caption
- Basic Openbox session
- Software.developer
- Dana Jansens, Mikael Magnusson
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.operating system
- Unix-like
- Software.genre
- Stacking window manager
- Software.license
- GPL 2.0 or later
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Official website
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Using Openbox
- Configuration
- Pipe menus
- See also
- References
- External links
Openbox is a free, stacking window manager for the X Window System, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Originally derived from Blackbox 0.65.0 (a C++ project), Openbox has been completely re-written in the C programming language and since version 3.0 is no longer based upon any code from Blackbox. Since at least 2010, it has been considered feature complete, bug free and a completed project. Occasional maintenance is done to keep it working, but only if needed.
Openbox is designed to be small, fast, and fully compliant with the Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual (ICCCM) and Extended Window Manager Hints (EWMH). It supports many features such as menus by which the user can control applications or which display various dynamic information.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Openbox” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.