You can find here my config files on my github If you want to enable this feature again (because you want to go back to Gnome, and want the desktop background) just change false to true. Gconftool - 2 - s - t bool /apps/n autilus / preferences / show_desktop false & gconftool-2 -s -t bool / desktop / gnome / background / draw_background false & OpenBox manager makes it easy to change the number of virtual desktops, names and themes.
#Openbox v8s gift setup install#
If you don’t, just replace apt-get install by your favourite package manager. I assume here that you use a Debian base distribution. Please let me drive you to this wonderful world of Openbox installation and customization… Installation So basically the first time you launch OpenBox you’ll have nothing but a black background and a right-click mouse menu to launch applications.īut once the setup is finished, you have a super fast working environement, with multidesktops, a background manager, super shortcuts, launcher(s), and a minimal memory footprint. Openbox is just a minimal window manager, so there won’t be any panels, background manager, launcher or anything. Well, barely nothing if you don’t have what you need. What should I expect after an initial Openbox setup? OpenBox feels like a developer’s dream to work on. Blazzing fast! This is what I’m missing with the other ones. But usually, after 15 minutes I am back onto my minimal setup. Even if I’ve now abandoned Arch Linux on my development machine (back to Ubuntu) I have kept Openbox: easy to use, 0 bling bling, everything accessible via shortcuts, and the smallest memory footprint you can find.įrom time to time I boot to Gnome or Unity, just to be sure that I don’t miss anything. I discovered Openbox with Arch Linux about a year ago. I’d rather lose the eye candy and have a super fast, solid, tweackable window Manager.Īgain, I’m not saying than Openbox is for everyone, but if you’re a serious hacker, you should give it a go.
#Openbox v8s gift setup windows 8#
Nice, polished (as much as it can be for a first version), easy to use, and we can see that Windows 8 and Unity tend, to a certain extent, to remove the gap between mouse and fingers (touch) for the future.īut I don’t find Unity (or gnome 3 or Mac OS) good enough for daily development tasks. I don’t dislike these projects and, to be fair, Unity is pretty good for a “normal user”. Now Gnome 3.0 is in the pipeline and Unity is mainstream. I liked its simplicity but found that I still had to use the mouse too much. Too much “stuff”, too much bling-bling and too much mouse usage.īefore falling in love with OpenBox, I was using Gnome. I’ve been a Linux user for a long time and as far as I can remember, I’ve always hated KDE. I’ve never really tried it as the default apps installed and the default there do not appeal me, but if you need to install something on a light computer or a netbook, it might be a good option. OpenBox is a very lightweight and easy to hack desktop environment for Linux.Major distributions are usually shipped using Gnome or KDE, and now Ubuntu is shipped with Unity, but I’m sure you’ll find an Openbox package in your distribution repos.There is even a Ubuntu base distro shipped with a tweacked OpenBox with default.