[openbox] use openbox along other window managers

[Lucaugusto]

Thank you for the responses... I finally understood gnome 3 proposal for a
desktop, liked it, but it was not fluid enough and I was not ready to give
up of openbox keybindings, so i came back to xfce + openbox....

While trying to mimic some of the gnome concepts i made my own light
version of it:

1) using a dock. I choosed plank. The advantages of a dock: it will avoid
the opening of new instances of the same program, so I will not end my day
with GMail opened in 5 google chrome windows (am I the only one?). And I
can pin my most used programs in the dock, so it does'nt matter if I
already opened the program or not, i'll be there in the dock as if it was
already opened. If a want a second terminal window, i just type Ctrl+N to
start it. And when I click in the terminal icon on the dock it'll bring to
the front all the terminal windows i have opened, so i'll notice i probably
don't need a new one.

2) installing a search based launcher. I choosed ulauncher: fast, non
intrusive, lot of plugins.

So I think I can stay away from gnome 3 for another 5 years :P

Lucas

On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 16:26, D.T. <ohnonot-github at posteo.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 2020-04-08 at 18:30 -0300, Lucaugusto wrote:
> > Gnome shell. I'm kind of liking it, but if I start openbox the whole
> > session crashes.
> >
> Just to clarify, I don't think you can have 2 windowmanagers.
> GNOME is not a windowmanager but a desktop environment; it's WM is
> called mutter I believe.
> In the past it used to be possible to replace that with openbox, in a
> GNOME session.
> I have no idea if this is still possible; a quick web search should
> help (OK, I looked, it's not possible).
> I know for a fact that XFCE4 can use openbox as its windowmanager.
>
> HTH
>
> > On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 at 17:27, <sunnycemetery at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On 2020-04-08 01:00, Lucaugusto wrote:
> > > > In other words:  do you think it would be possible to strip down
> > > > openbox to remove it's ability to draw borders in windows, but
> > > > keep
> > > > the ability to control the windows using keybindings while using
> > > > other
> > > > window managers?
> > >
> > > Possibly, if you want to spend a significant amount of time
> > > hacking.
> > >
> > > What is the other window manager, and what does it do that Openbox
> > > doesn't?
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