openbox(1)


NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

   openbox [options]

DESCRIPTION

   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.

OPTIONS

   --sm-disable
        Disable connection to session manager.

   --sm-client-id <ID>
        Specify session management ID.

   --sm-save-file <FILE>
        Specify file to load a saved session from.

   --replace
        Replace the currently running window manager.

   --help
        Display some help and exit.

   --version
        Display the version and exit.

   --sync
        Run in synchronous mode (this is slow and meant for debugging X
        routines).

   --debug
        Display debugging output.

AUTHORS

   Openbox was written by Mikael Magnusson <mangosoft@comhem.se> and Ben
   Jansens <ben@openbox.org>, aided by several contributors; for a full
   list read the file AUTHORS.

   This manual page was written by Tore Anderson <tore@debian.org>.

COPYRIGHT

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
   under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
   Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
   later version.

   On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
   Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.





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