[openbox] Toolbar Support?

Arwed von Merkatz v.merkatz at gmx.net
Tue Aug 26 16:27:37 EDT 2003


On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:25:11PM -0600, Matt O'Connor wrote:
> Hello, I am new to Openbox and am using 3.0_alpha6.  I was wondering why there 
> is no builtin toolbar support?  Is there a way to fix this without using 
> Gnome, KDE, ROX, etc?  I have tried docker and bbpager, but bbpager quits 
> with an error about being unable to connect to the window manager.  From this 
> I gathered that Openbox 3 does not support Blackbox apps.  
> 
> Assuming there are no options available, where is a good place to look for 
> code to attempt writing my own?  (I am only looking for a pager, taskbar, and 
> clock, but all of them in some form of dock or panel is great.)  Thanks.

You could try the xfce4 panel or the xftaskbar (both available at
http://www.xfce.org ). I *think* they should work fine with ob3, but i
didn't try that yet.

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