June 2006 screenshots

jason · 2006-06-19 00:38:48

Openbox seems to be very very popular, but why can't I see what you guys love about it? Am I missing some essential piece? Shadowhand's ob screenshot is hot though...

McQueen · 2006-06-19 02:06:17

jason wrote:

Openbox seems to be very very popular, but why can't I see what you guys love about it?

Best answer is to just try it. I used to say the same about Fluxbox.

Gullible Jones · 2006-06-19 03:35:57

It's small, functional, unobtrusive, beautiful, and incredibly fast.

McQueen · 2006-06-19 04:56:40

Gullible Jones wrote:

It's small, functional, unobtrusive, beautiful, and incredibly fast.

They were asking about Openbox, Gullible...not your "thingy".

iphitus · 2006-06-19 05:10:53

McQueen wrote:

Gullible Jones wrote:
It's small, functional, unobtrusive, beautiful, and incredibly fast.
They were asking about Openbox, Gullible...not your "thingy".

owned. but what does openbox really have that makes it so great, what killer features set it apart from the rest?

benplaut · 2006-06-19 05:15:25

so all of those nice looking clocks people have are simply conky? interesting... i haven't configged it since getting my overlapping monitors to work, but i'm gonna tweak whargouls for another

shadowhand · 2006-06-19 07:53:55

jason wrote:

Shadowhand's ob screenshot is hot though...

Thanks!

I love openbox because it's elegant. It's easy to set up, easy to change keybinds, and is really small and fast. I don't like the Flux "slit", and I don't like Flux's menu system. Openbox is "just" a window manager, but it's a very good one.

palandir · 2006-06-19 12:05:13

Openbox doesn't have any killer features. I like that it's very standards compliant, so you can use *any* additional tools like taskbars, window matching utilities, and so on, it integrates well with Gnome and KDE (but I don't care about these), the configuration files are XML but easy to edit with a text editor (everything is very well structured and named). The default themes are few but all good (Fluxbox for example comes with a shitload of themes and 99% of them are crap). There is the graphical "obconf" for fast theme switching/preview (and setting some of the elemental functions). And it never crashes or misbehaves.

Husio · 2006-06-19 12:26:34

shadowhand wrote:

I've fallen in love with Openbox again, and it makes my desktop happy.

what's the name of the terminal emulator?
aterm can run without border?

Gullible Jones · 2006-06-19 14:50:45

McQueen wrote:

Gullible Jones wrote:
It's small, functional, unobtrusive, beautiful, and incredibly fast.
They were asking about Openbox, Gullible...not your "thingy".

Umm... What thingy? Openbox fits that profile, just look at the screenshots, the package size, the memory footprint, the window-switching menu, the way it can integrate with DEs, the redraw times for window decorations, etc. It's not a perfect window manager of course, but it's a damn good window manager.

shadowhand · 2006-06-19 16:13:09

Husio wrote:

shadowhand wrote:

I've fallen in love with Openbox again, and it makes my desktop happy.
what's the name of the terminal emulator?
aterm can run without border?

It's terminal-svn from xfce-svn. Any app can run in OB without borders (there's a command called "Decorate" in OB which removes the titlebar)

whargoul · 2006-06-19 18:09:13

McQueen wrote:

Gullible Jones wrote:
It's small, functional, unobtrusive, beautiful, and incredibly fast.
They were asking about Openbox, Gullible...not your "thingy".

Is this a porn site now?

Mr Green · 2006-06-19 18:49:23

cactus wrote:

nice desk dude ....!!!!

you running ob on yer lappy.....?

cdhotfire · 2006-06-19 20:41:29

[URL=http://img225.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200606191642031280x1024scrot7r.png][/URL]

ehm. :?

cactus · 2006-06-19 20:49:24

Mr Green wrote:

nice desk dude ....!!!!
you running ob on yer lappy.....?

yeah. openbox with gnome.

cdhotfire · 2006-06-19 20:58:23

cactus you actually got a new wallpaper.

rezza · 2006-06-19 22:01:45

Just showing off one of the new features that'll be in the next Rezlooks.

Global Havok · 2006-06-20 04:26:25

Global Havok · 2006-06-20 04:27:23

rezza wrote:

Just showing off one of the new features that'll be in the next Rezlooks.

Nice.

postlogic · 2006-06-20 10:39:19

Global Havok wrote:

that's really nice. Clean and prettee.

HAL9000 · 2006-06-20 10:51:08

sweiss wrote:

What's that GTK theme?

Sorry for delay.
wm is xfce-svn
gtk2 theme
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show. … tent=35812
window decoration
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show. … tent=28686
icons
http://www.xfce-look.org/content/show.php?content=23297
so as you see its mixed.

Husio · 2006-06-20 13:49:37

[URL=http://img60.imageshack.us/my.php?image=a3zm.jpg] a3zm.th.jpg [/URL]

Brute · 2006-06-20 15:05:17

Hi,
Here is my current desktop, using openbov-devel, adesklets and an openbox theme by Aer (openbox implementation of the Rezlooks-Chlorophyll gtk-2.0 theme).

phildg · 2006-06-20 16:43:47

OK, so not as impressive as some (read: as most) of the screenshots, but I like it. I have done so subtle tweaks to the default theme, so its not completely standard. Background picture courtesy of rezza.

agm · 2006-06-20 21:05:49

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