OpenBox3 HOWTO goes “official”

I just received word from Josh that the OpenBox3 HOWTO that I started writing quite a while back is now in the official Gentoo documentation repository! Josh went through and made some changes to the draft version, and as far as I can tell, they were:

  • Commented out ~arch applications in order to stick with the stable branch
  • Removed the notes about mixing stable/unstable branches
  • Some syntactical changes to my XML

So, if you have a desire to try a really neat window manager with few dependencies and that offers a huge amount of customisability, feel free to read the OpenBox Guide

Thank you Josh! 🙂

|:| Zach |:|

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  1. Thanks David! I hope you find the guide beneficial. 🙂

    • david_e on Tuesday, 30 June 2009 at 19:58
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    Good work!

  2. LXpanel was on the list of applications to use in conjunction with OpenBox. However, since it is currently in the ~arch (the testing branch), it can’t be included in the HOWTO. I had a bunch of applications (tint2, LXappearance, et cetera) listed that were in ~arch, and Josh commented them out for the time being. I guess I really should get in there and poke the teams to mark them stable.

    • volkmar on Monday, 29 June 2009 at 08:06
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    You should add lxpanel in panel list. It’s really good and designed to be used with openbox as lxde is using openbox.

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