Openbox 3.6.1 recently released, is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support. The *box visual style is well known for its minimalistic appearance. Openbox uses the *box visual style, while providing a greater number of options for theme developers than previous *box implementations.
Openbox lets you bring the latest applications outside of a full desktop environment. Most modern applications have been written with GNOME and KDE in mind. Openbox makes desktop environments better. By running Openbox inside the GNOME or K desktop environments, you can combine their ease and functionality with the power of Openbox. Your desktop becomes cleaner and faster, and is in your control, when you use Openbox.
Openbox 3.6.x changelog
- Bump ABI version of libobrender that should have been done in 3.6
- Added various new abilities to If action, including the <query> tag, matching class, name, role and window type.
- Added ForEach action.
- Restore the <center> option for window placement.
- New GrowToFill action.
- Updated Portuguese and Polish translations.
- New Galician translation.
- Added strict option to ToggleShowDesktop action.
- Speed optimization in rendering code.
- New <position> tag for ShowMenu action allows placing menus other than at the mouse cursor.
- Fix some corner cases of relative position to work correctly.
- Allow specifying multiple mousebinds in one tag as we already do for keybinds (separated by spaces, as “W-Return M-S-F3″ for example).
- Added option rebindOnMappingNotify option, on by default, which controls if we update binds when the keyboard layout changes at runtime.
- The resize action now only considers the part of the client that is onscreen for purposes of picking an action to perform.
- Make desktop actions non-interactive (means you can have more actions bound to a key after them, and the dialog disappears on a timer instead of when releasing the modifier keys).
- obxprop is now not pathologically slow when printing very long arrays.
- Fix menu accelerator underlines sometimes not showing up.
- Fix so you can click menu entries before the menuHideDelay expires if it’s a new click.
- Don’t readd the X event fd to the poll set every time we reconfigure.
- Fix some specialized button bitmaps not loading from the correct files. (toggled + pressed or hover would just be the base toggled image).
- Various small bugfixes.
Install Openbox 3.6.1 on Ubuntu OS
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install openbox obconf
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