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Does anyone know of a live distribution that boots into openbox?, preferably with some key apps installed (background tool, file browser etc) The move from KDE to Openbox for me seems a bit daunting so it would be good to stuff around on a live cd first.
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A bit daunting? you can install both openbox and kde at the same time, and if you get stuck in openbox (which I can hardly imagine) you can just do exit and log in to kde.
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And considering how small OpenBox is I would think that it would hardly screw your System or something like that.
Todays mistakes are tomorrows catastrophes.
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At worst all you need is a "Ctrl+Alt+Backspace".
Arch Linux since 2006
Python Web Developer + Sys Admin (Gentoo/BSD)
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Thanks for all the help I got, I installed it and booted up the x server, had to do it a couple of times cause I thought it wasn't working, until I clicked the right mouse button and saw a menu on a very blank screen :s
I have another question though as I'm reinstalling Arch; I seemed to be able to access programs like Firefox and Konqueror from my ob menu. ( I have KDE installed, but not running ob within it) Am I to believe it's as easy as installing base Arch, installing needed apps (letting pacman install the deps) and finally installing openbox?
Also are there any KDE packages I need for any programs (not counting the ones built into it like konqueror, kwrite etc) or gui's to work properly
Thanks
-soon to be openbox convert
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For the menu, its contained in an xml file in ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml. You can either edit that, or install "obmenu" with pacman. Anything that is in that file will show up in your right click menu. For the most part you have to edit it yourself, unless you use something like menumaker.
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Yeh I got a rough menu working with one of the menu building scripts, it just seems too simple to be true, I think I've found a nice replacement to kde
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