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19 <!ENTITY dhsection "<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>">
20 <!ENTITY dhucpackage "<refentrytitle>OPENBOX</refentrytitle>">
21 <!ENTITY dhpackage "openbox">
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23
24 <refentry>
25 <refmeta>
26 &dhucpackage;
27
28 &dhsection;
29 </refmeta>
30 <refnamediv>
31 <refname>&dhpackage;</refname>
32
33 <refpurpose>Next generation, highly configurable window manager
34 </refpurpose>
35 </refnamediv>
36 <refsynopsisdiv>
37 <cmdsynopsis>
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>
47 <arg><option>--debug-xinerama</option></arg>
48 </cmdsynopsis>
49 </refsynopsisdiv>
50 <refsect1>
51 <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
52
53 <para>Openbox is a next generation, highly
54 configurable window manager. Openbox is compliant with the
55 latest window manager standards.</para>
56
57 <para>You can start Openbox in three ways:</para>
58
59 <para>If you run a display manager such as GDM, you will find 3 entries
60 in the login session type menu for Openbox:
61 <command>GNOME/Openbox</command>, <command>KDE/Openbox</command>
62 and <command>Openbox</command>. If you want to use Openbox
63 within GNOME or KDE, you can choose the appropriate entry, and it will
64 launch GNOME or KDE with Openbox as the window manager.</para>
65
66 <para>If you don't want to run Openbox within a desktop environment, then
67 it is recommended that you instead set up a ~/.xsession file and
68 use the <command>Default</command> session type. The ~/.xsession file
69 should start any applications you want to run at startup, and then run
70 <command>&dhpackage;</command> at the end, such as:</para>
71
72 <blockquote><literallayout>
73 xsetroot -solid grey &
74 gnome-settings-daemon &
75 exec <command>&dhpackage;</command></literallayout></blockquote>
76
77 <para>Lastly, if you use <command>startx</command> to launch your X
78 session, you should set up a ~/.xinitrc file, exactly the same as the
79 above ~/.xsession file.</para>
80
81 <para>You can use the <command>obconf</command> tool to configure Openbox
82 easily with a graphical interface, however more in-depth configuration
83 is possible by editing the configuration files by hand. Please note that
84 <command>obconf</command> older than version 2.0 may not work at all
85 for you.</para>
86
87 <para>The default configuration files are installed in
88 @configdir@/openbox/rc.xml, and the user configuration is placed in
89 ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml. You can copy the default configuration
90 to ~/.config/openbox and edit it to your liking.</para>
91 </refsect1>
92 <refsect1>
93 <title>OPTIONS</title>
94
95 <para>These are the possible options that <command>&dhpackage;</command> accepts:</para>
96 <variablelist>
97 <varlistentry>
98 <term><option>--help</option></term>
99 <listitem>
100 <para>Show a summary of the options available.</para>
101 </listitem>
102 </varlistentry>
103 <varlistentry>
104 <term><option>--version</option></term>
105 <listitem>
106 <para>Show the version of the program.</para>
107 </listitem>
108 </varlistentry>
109 <varlistentry>
110 <term><option>--replace</option></term>
111 <listitem>
112 <para>Replace the currently running window manager.</para>
113 </listitem>
114 </varlistentry>
115 <varlistentry>
116 <term><option>--reconfigure</option></term>
117 <listitem>
118 <para>If Openbox is already running on the display, tell it to
119 reload its configuration.</para>
120 </listitem>
121 </varlistentry>
122 <varlistentry>
123 <term><option>--sm-disable</option></term>
124 <listitem>
125 <para>Do not connect to the session manager.</para>
126 </listitem>
127 </varlistentry>
128 <varlistentry>
129 <term><option>--sync</option></term>
130 <listitem>
131 <para>Run in synchronous mode (for debugging).</para>
132 </listitem>
133 </varlistentry>
134 <varlistentry>
135 <term><option>--debug</option></term>
136 <listitem>
137 <para>Display debugging output.</para>
138 </listitem>
139 </varlistentry>
140 <varlistentry>
141 <term><option>--debug-focus</option></term>
142 <listitem>
143 <para>Display debugging output for focus handling.</para>
144 </listitem>
145 </varlistentry>
146 <varlistentry>
147 <term><option>--debug-xinerama</option></term>
148 <listitem>
149 <para>Split the display into two fake xinerama regions, if
150 xinerama is not already enabled. This is for debugging
151 xinerama support.</para>
152 </listitem>
153 </varlistentry>
154 </variablelist>
155 </refsect1>
156 <refsect1>
157 <title>SEE ALSO</title>
158
159 <para>obconf (1), openbox-gnome-session (1), openbox-kde-session (1).
160 </para>
161
162 <para>The program's full documentation is available on the website:
163 <literal>http://openbox.org/</literal></para>
164
165 <para>Please report bugs to: <literal>http://bugzilla.icculus.org/
166 </literal></para>
167 </refsect1>
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