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20 <!ENTITY dhucpackage "<refentrytitle>OPENBOX</refentrytitle>">
21 <!ENTITY dhpackage "openbox">
31 <refname>&dhpackage;</refname>
33 <refpurpose>Next generation, highly configurable window manager
38 <command>&dhpackage;</command>
39 <arg><option>--help</option></arg>
40 <arg><option>--version</option></arg>
41 <arg><option>--replace</option></arg>
42 <arg><option>--reconfigure</option></arg>
43 <arg><option>--sm-disable</option></arg>
44 <arg><option>--sync</option></arg>
45 <arg><option>--debug</option></arg>
46 <arg><option>--debug-focus</option></arg>
50 <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
52 <para>Openbox is a next generation, highly
53 configurable window manager. Openbox is compliant with the
54 latest window manager standards.</para>
56 <para>You can start Openbox in three ways:</para>
58 <para>If you run a display manager such as GDM, you will find 3 entries
59 in the login session type menu for Openbox:
60 <command>GNOME/Openbox</command>, <command>KDE/Openbox</command>
61 and <command>Openbox</command>. If you want to use Openbox
62 within GNOME or KDE, you can choose the appropriate entry, and it will
63 launch GNOME or KDE with Openbox as the window manager.</para>
65 <para>If you don't want to run Openbox withing a desktop environment, then
66 it is recommended that you instead set up a ~/.xsession file and
67 use the <command>Default</command> session type. The ~/.xsession file
68 should any applications you want to run at startup, and then run
69 <command>&dhpackage;</command> at the end, such as:</para>
71 <blockquote><literallayout>
72 xsetroot -solid grey &
73 gnome-settings-daemon &
74 exec <command>&dhpackage;</command></literallayout></blockquote>
76 <para>Lastly, if you use <command>startx</command> to launch your X
77 session, you should set up a ~/.xinitrc file, exactly the same as the
78 above ~/.xsession file.</para>
80 <para>You can use the <command>obconf</command> tool to configure Openbox
81 easily with a graphical interface, however more in-depth configuration
82 is possible by editing the configuration files by hand. The default
83 configuration file is installed in @configdir@/openbox/rc.xml, and the
84 user configuration is placed in ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml. You can copy
85 the default configuration to ~/.config/openbox and edit it to your
90 <title>OPTIONS</title>
92 <para>These are the possible options that <command>&dhpackage;</command> accepts:</para>
95 <term><option>--help</option></term>
97 <para>Show a summary of the options available.</para>
101 <term><option>--version</option></term>
103 <para>Show the version of the program.</para>
107 <term><option>--replace</option></term>
109 <para>Replace the currently running window manager.</para>
113 <term><option>--reconfigure</option></term>
115 <para>If Openbox is already running on the display, tell it to
116 reload it's configuration.</para>
120 <term><option>--sm-disable</option></term>
122 <para>Do not connect to the session manager.</para>
126 <term><option>--sync</option></term>
128 <para>Run in synchronous mode (for debugging).</para>
132 <term><option>--debug</option></term>
134 <para>Display debugging output.</para>
138 <term><option>--debug-focus</option></term>
140 <para>Display debugging output for focus handling.</para>
146 <title>SEE ALSO</title>
148 <para>obconf (1), openbox-gnome-session (1), openbox-kde-session (1).
151 <para>The program's full documentation is available on the website:
152 <literal>http://openbox.org/</literal></para>
154 <para>Please report bugs to: <literal>http://bugzilla.icculus.org/
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