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20 <!ENTITY dhucpackage "<refentrytitle>OPENBOX</refentrytitle>">
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24 <refentry>
25 <refmeta>
26 &dhucpackage;
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28 &dhsection;
29 </refmeta>
30 <refnamediv>
31 <refname>&dhpackage;</refname>
32
33 <refpurpose>A minimalistic, highly configurable, next generation window
34 manager with extensive standards support.</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 minimalistic, highly configurable, next generation window
54 manager with extensive standards support.</para>
55
56 <para>You can start Openbox in three ways:</para>
57
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>
64
65 <para>The third option at log in, which is <command>Openbox</command>
66 without a session manager, uses the <command>openbox-session</command>
67 command to start Openbox. On log in, <command>&dhpackage;</command> will
68 run the ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh script if it exists, and will run
69 the system-wide script @configdir@/openbox/autostart.sh otherwise. You
70 may place anything you want to run automatically in those files, for
71 example:
72 </para>
73
74 <blockquote><literallayout>
75 xsetroot -solid grey &
76 gnome-settings-daemon &</literallayout></blockquote>
77
78 <para>Make sure that each line is followed by a "&" or else the script will
79 stop there and further commands will not be executed. You can use the
80 @configdir@/openbox/autostart.sh file as an example for creating your
81 own.</para>
82
83 <para>The default @configdir@/openbox/autostart.sh runs a number of things
84 with Openbox.</para>
85
86 <para>Lastly, if you use <command>startx</command> to launch your X
87 session, you can set up a ~/.xinitrc file to run
88 <command>openbox-session</command> and follow the same directions as
89 above regarding the autostart.sh file.</para>
90
91 <para>You can use the <command>obconf</command> tool to configure Openbox
92 easily with a graphical interface, however more in-depth configuration
93 is possible by editing the configuration files by hand.</para>
94
95 <para>The default configuration and menu files are installed in
96 @configdir@/openbox/, and the user configuration is placed in
97 ~/.config/openbox/. You can copy the default configuration and menus
98 to ~/.config/openbox and edit it to your liking.</para>
99 </refsect1>
100 <refsect1>
101 <title>OPTIONS</title>
102
103 <para>These are the possible options that <command>&dhpackage;</command> accepts:</para>
104 <variablelist>
105 <varlistentry>
106 <term><option>--help</option></term>
107 <listitem>
108 <para>Show a summary of the options available.</para>
109 </listitem>
110 </varlistentry>
111 <varlistentry>
112 <term><option>--version</option></term>
113 <listitem>
114 <para>Show the version of the program.</para>
115 </listitem>
116 </varlistentry>
117 <varlistentry>
118 <term><option>--replace</option></term>
119 <listitem>
120 <para>Replace the currently running window manager.</para>
121 </listitem>
122 </varlistentry>
123 <varlistentry>
124 <term><option>--reconfigure</option></term>
125 <listitem>
126 <para>If Openbox is already running on the display, tell it to
127 reload its configuration.</para>
128 </listitem>
129 </varlistentry>
130 <varlistentry>
131 <term><option>--sm-disable</option></term>
132 <listitem>
133 <para>Do not connect to the session manager.</para>
134 </listitem>
135 </varlistentry>
136 <varlistentry>
137 <term><option>--sync</option></term>
138 <listitem>
139 <para>Run in synchronous mode (for debugging).</para>
140 </listitem>
141 </varlistentry>
142 <varlistentry>
143 <term><option>--debug</option></term>
144 <listitem>
145 <para>Display debugging output.</para>
146 </listitem>
147 </varlistentry>
148 <varlistentry>
149 <term><option>--debug-focus</option></term>
150 <listitem>
151 <para>Display debugging output for focus handling.</para>
152 </listitem>
153 </varlistentry>
154 <varlistentry>
155 <term><option>--debug-xinerama</option></term>
156 <listitem>
157 <para>Split the display into two fake xinerama regions, if
158 xinerama is not already enabled. This is for debugging
159 xinerama support.</para>
160 </listitem>
161 </varlistentry>
162 </variablelist>
163 </refsect1>
164 <refsect1>
165 <title>SEE ALSO</title>
166
167 <para>obconf (1), openbox-session(1), openbox-gnome-session(1),
168 openbox-kde-session(1).</para>
169
170 <para>The program's full documentation is available on the website:
171 <literal>http://icculus.org/openbox/</literal></para>
172
173 <para>Please report bugs to: <literal>http://bugzilla.icculus.org/
174 </literal></para>
175 </refsect1>
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