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Package: openbox (3.4.7.2-5 and others)

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

Tags: Implemented in: C, User Interface: X Window System, Role: Program, Scope: Utility, Interface Toolkit: X library, X Window System: Window Manager

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    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.2.5) [amd64]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.4) [armel, powerpc, s390]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.6) [sparc]
  • dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.2) [ia64]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6.1-udeb
  • dep: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0)
    generic font configuration library - runtime
  • dep: libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1)
    FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files
  • 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: libobparser21
    parsing library for openbox
  • dep: libobrender21
    rendering library for openbox themes
  • dep: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0)
    Layout and rendering of internationalized text
  • dep: libsm6
    X11 Session Management library
  • dep: libstartup-notification0 (>= 0.10)
    library for program launch feedback (shared library)
  • dep: libx11-6
    X11 client-side library
  • dep: libxau6
    X11 authorisation library
  • dep: libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2) [hppa]
    X cursor management library
  • dep: libxext6
    X11 miscellaneous extension library
  • dep: libxft2 (>> 2.1.1)
    FreeType-based font drawing library for X
  • 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
  • dep: zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
    compression library - runtime
  • 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
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  • sug: ttf-dejavu
    Metapackage to pull in ttf-dejavu-core and ttf-dejavu-extra

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Architecture Version Package Size Installed Size Files
amd64 3.4.7.2-5 306.0 kB1464 kB [list of files]
armel 3.4.7.2-5+b1 283.0 kB1408 kB [list of files]
hppa 3.4.7.2-5 284.8 kB1440 kB [list of files]
i386 3.4.7.2-5 285.9 kB1424 kB [list of files]
ia64 3.4.7.2-5+b1 363.7 kB1820 kB [list of files]
mips 3.4.7.2-5 273.8 kB1516 kB [list of files]
mipsel 3.4.7.2-5 273.0 kB1516 kB [list of files]
powerpc 3.4.7.2-5 280.6 kB1472 kB [list of files]
s390 3.4.7.2-5 284.4 kB1456 kB [list of files]
sparc 3.4.7.2-5 286.8 kB1424 kB [list of files]