Openbox question

arox1 · 2007-02-26 15:19:47

Is Openbox still maintained? There are no news about any new release
It's a very good wm, it would be a pity if it was obsolete

I'm using version 3.3.1, does SVN version have any new features or sth? Is it stable?

smoon · 2007-02-26 15:44:38

Openbox is still being maintained, though there's not much new stuff happening. Though most code changes are bug fixes, there's a new feature sneaking in every now and then. For example it is possible to show the client list as combined list for all desktops (rather than showing a submenu for each desktop) for a few weeks now.

The code in the subversion repository is stable, it's basically the last release with a few bugfixes and very few changes feature-wise.

mucknert · 2007-02-26 16:09:38

smoon, is the feature you mention in 3.3.1 or in the svn-repository?

arox1 · 2007-02-26 16:14:20

It isn't in 3.3.1 so propably in svn

I've downloaded svn now and will check it out

Mr Green · 2007-02-26 16:18:54

woah smoon show me the new features lol.... 8)

smoon · 2007-02-28 17:33:17

Mr Green wrote:

woah smoon show me the new features lol.... 8)

Ok, here's a new feature that's in SVN trunk: A combined client-list menu. It shows the apps from all deskops in a single menu instead of creating a submenu for every desktop. It's not all that spectacular, but it is new

Also the original Openbox developer reappeared in #openbox recently and started to talk about working on ob again. He also listed a lot new and fancy stuff he'd like to see in Openbox...

Mr Green · 2007-02-28 17:59:23

Sweet! ..... /me loves Openbox

fluorite · 2007-03-02 16:52:18

Could you post PKGBUILD for openbox-svn ?? Please

fk · 2007-03-02 19:08:00

Use smoons repo

Put his in your pacman.conf

[nooms]
Server = http://arch.nooms.de/pkg/i686

then

pacman -Sy openbox-svn obconf-ng

Mr Green · 2007-03-02 19:15:34

http://hg.nooms.de/pkgbuilds/

or for pkgbuilds...........

archuser · 2007-03-02 19:19:45

:: Retrieving packages from nooms...
Downloading: openbox-svn-5509-1.pkg.tar.gz
repo: arch.nooms.de
specify at least one URL
mv: cannot stat `openbox-svn-5509-1.pkg.tar.gz.pacget': No such file or directory
Downloading: obconf-ng-1.6-1.pkg.tar.gz
repo: arch.nooms.de
specify at least one URL
mv: cannot stat `obconf-ng-1.6-1.pkg.tar.gz.pacget': No such file or directory
checking package integrity... /var/cache/pacman/pkg/openbox-svn-5509-1.pkg.tar.gz can't be opened
error: can't get md5 checksum for archive openbox-svn-5509-1.pkg.tar.gz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/obconf-ng-1.6-1.pkg.tar.gz can't be opened
error: can't get md5 checksum for archive obconf-ng-1.6-1.pkg.tar.gz

arox1 · 2007-03-02 19:23:08

smoon wrote:

Mr Green wrote:
woah smoon show me the new features lol.... 8)
Ok, here's a new feature that's in SVN trunk: A combined client-list menu. It shows the apps from all deskops in a single menu instead of creating a submenu for every desktop. It's not all that spectacular, but it is new
Also the original Openbox developer reappeared in #openbox recently and started to talk about working on ob again. He also listed a lot new and fancy stuff he'd like to see in Openbox...

How to enable this?

I have to add new entry in rc file?

Mr Green · 2007-03-02 19:27:27

@archuser obconf-ng installs fine here ...

Fri Mar  2 19:35:00 2007 - NOTICE - Adding URL: http://arch.nooms.de/pkg/i686/obconf-ng-1.6-1.pkg.tar.gz
11,584/18,775 Bytes 61% 01s 4.95 KB/s 1 connections                          
The download was complete. <./obconf-ng-1.6-1.pkg.tar.gz.pacget>

checking package integrity... done.
loading package data... done.
checking for file conflicts... done.
installing obconf-ng... done.
[root@Arch pkg]#

Last edited by Mr Green (2007-03-02 19:28:00)

archuser · 2007-03-02 19:30:21

I just keep getting that error running as root or with sudo. Tried pacman -Scc to no avail.

Mr Green · 2007-03-02 19:32:02

@arox1 edit your rc.xml change client-list-menu to client-list-combined-menu [don't forget to run reconfigure after!]

HTH

Last edited by Mr Green (2007-03-02 19:57:26)

cactus · 2007-03-02 19:33:53

try disabling pacget and try again.

Mr Green · 2007-03-02 19:38:49

Beer anyone?

archuser · 2007-03-02 19:45:19

cactus wrote:

try disabling pacget and try again.

That worked. Cheers.

Don't even know why I use pacget because it doesn't make any difference.

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