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Package: openbox (3.4.10-1) [universe]

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Original Maintainer (usually from Debian):

  • Nico Golde

It should generally not be necessary for users to contact the original maintainer.

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standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible window manager

Openbox works with your applications, and makes your desktop easier to manage. This is because the approach to its development was the opposite of what seems to be the general case for window managers. Openbox was written first to comply with standards and to work properly. Only when that was in place did the team turn to the visual interface.

Openbox is fully functional as a stand-alone working environment, or can be used as a drop-in replacement for the default window manager in the GNOME or KDE desktop environments.

Openbox 3 is a completely new breed of window manager. It is not based upon any existing code base, although the visual appearance has been based upon that of Blackbox. Openbox 2 was based on the Blackbox 0.65.0 codebase.

Some of the things to look for in Openbox are: 

 * ICCCM and EWMH compliance!
 * Very fast
 * Chainable key bindings
 * Customizable mouse actions
 * Window resistance
 * Multi-head Xinerama support!
 * Pipe menus

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  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.4)
    Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
  • dep: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0)
    The GLib library of C routines
  • dep: libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0)
    X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
  • dep: libobparser21
    parsing library for openbox
  • dep: libobrender21
    rendering library for openbox themes
  • dep: libsm6
    X11 Session Management library
  • dep: libstartup-notification0 (>= 0.10)
    library for program launch feedback (shared library)
  • dep: libx11-6
    X11 client-side library
  • dep: libxau6
    X11 authorisation library
  • dep: libxext6
    X11 miscellaneous extension library
  • dep: libxinerama1
    X11 Xinerama extension library
  • dep: libxml2 (>= 2.7.4)
    GNOME XML library
  • dep: libxrandr2
    X11 RandR extension library
  • dep: libxrender1
    X Rendering Extension client library
  • sug: libxml2-dev
    Development files for the GNOME XML library
  • sug: menu
    generates programs menu for all menu-aware applications
  • sug: obconf
    Preferences manager for Openbox window manager
  • sug: python
    An interactive high-level object-oriented language (default version)
  • sug: ttf-dejavu
    Metapackage to pull in ttf-dejavu-core and ttf-dejavu-extra

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amd64 296.0 kB1,492.0 kB [list of files]
i386 274.5 kB1,452.0 kB [list of files]