Openbox

Openbox provides a right-click (or any other key-binding) "root menu" on the desktop, and allows users to configure the way windows are managed. When a window is minimized, it becomes invisible. To bring windows up again, most use or the Desktop menu, accessible by right-clicking. Or, sometimes, by middle-button-clicking. Extending Openbox with other small programs that add icons, taskbars, launchers, eyecandy and others is common. == Configuration ==

There are only two configuration files, both located in . They are named and . These can either be edited manually or with the graphical configuration tools ObConf and obmenu. All mouse and key-bindings can be configured. For example, a user can set: • a window to go to desktop 3 when the close button is clicked with the middle mouse button • when scrolling on an icon to move to the next/previous desktop • raise or not raise when clicking/moving a window == Pipe menus ==

Openbox has a dynamic menu system that uses "pipe menus". A menu item in a piped menu system can accept the standard output of a shell script (or other executable) in order to generate a sub-menu. Because the script runs every time the pointer activates it, and as the script can assess environmental conditions, piped menus enable conditional branching to be built into the menu system. When the window manager is restarted, a static menu system as used on most window managers gets its layout once and will not have the ability to modify the menu layout depending on environmental factors. == See also ==