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Package: openbox (3.4.4-3~bpo40+1) [backports]

standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible window manager

Openbox works with your applications, and makes your desktop easier to manage. This is because the approach to its development was the opposite of what seems to be the general case for window managers. Openbox was written first to comply with standards and to work properly. Only when that was in place did the team turn to the visual interface.

Openbox is fully functional as a stand-alone working environment, or can be used as a drop-in replacement for the default window manager in the GNOME or KDE desktop environments.

Openbox 3 is a completely new breed of window manager. It is not based upon any existing code base, although the visual appearance has been based upon that of Blackbox. Openbox 2 was based on the Blackbox 0.65.0 codebase.

Some of the things to look for in Openbox are: 

 * ICCCM and EWMH compliance!
 * Very fast
 * Chainable key bindings
 * Customizable mouse actions
 * Window resistance
 * Multi-head Xinerama support!
 * Pipe menus


 Homepage: http://www.openbox.org

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  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1) [not alpha, i386, ia64]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6) [i386]
  • dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.3.5-1) [alpha, ia64]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6.1-udeb
  • dep: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0)
    The GLib library of C routines
  • dep: libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0)
    X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
  • dep: libobparser16
    parsing library for openbox
  • dep: libobrender16
    rendering library for openbox themes
  • dep: libsm6
    X11 Session Management library
  • dep: libstartup-notification0 (>= 0.8-1)
    library for program launch feedback (shared library)
  • dep: libx11-6
    X11 client-side library
  • dep: libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2) [i386]
    X cursor management library
  • dep: libxext6
    X11 miscellaneous extension library
  • dep: libxinerama1
    X11 Xinerama extension library
  • dep: libxml2 (>= 2.6.27)
    GNOME XML library
  • dep: libxrandr2
    X11 RandR extension library
  • dep: libxrender1
    X Rendering Extension client library
  • sug: libxml2-dev
    Development files for the GNOME XML library
  • sug: menu
    generates programs menu for all menu-aware applications
  • sug: obconf
    Preferences manager for Openbox window manager
  • sug: python
    An interactive high-level object-oriented language (default version)
  • sug: ttf-bitstream-vera
    The Bitstream Vera family of free TrueType fonts

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Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
alpha 276.2 kB1412 kB [list of files]
amd64 246.8 kB1340 kB [list of files]
arm 229.5 kB1296 kB [list of files]
hppa 250.7 kB1332 kB [list of files]
i386 231.2 kB1312 kB [list of files]
ia64 319.1 kB1672 kB [list of files]
mips 244.7 kB1412 kB [list of files]
mipsel 242.3 kB1056 kB [list of files]
powerpc 257.5 kB1348 kB [list of files]
s390 245.9 kB1336 kB [list of files]
sparc 246.5 kB1300 kB [list of files]