Openbox
Basic Openbox X-Session
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| Developer(s) | Dana Jansens, Mikael Magnusson |
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| Initial release | 18 September 2002 |
| Stable release |
3.6.1 / 1 July 2015
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| Repository | github |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type | Stacking window manager |
| License | GPLv2+ |
| Website | openbox |
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 now been totally re-written in the C programming language and since version 3.0 is no longer based upon any code from Blackbox.
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.
Openbox is the standard window manager in LXDE, and is used in Linux distributions such as CrunchBang Linux, ArchBang, Lubuntu, TinyMe and Trisquel Mini.
The primary author of Openbox is Dana Jansens of Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Openbox allows a right-click (or any other key-binding) "root menu" on the desktop, and allows users to configure the way windows are managed. When a window is minimized, it becomes invisible. To bring windows up again, most use Alt+Tab ↹ or the Desktop menu, accessible by right-clicking. Extending Openbox with other small programs that add icons, taskbars, launchers, eyecandy and others is common.
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