Topic: Panel-less Openboxes?
I'm currently very dependent on tint2 and was wondering if anyone had come up with novel panel-less setups. Is the switch window dialog, PyTyle and Skippy all there is?
- dmhdlr
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I too am a bit curious about this (though unfortunately have nothing to add to your list). I had never heard of Skippy before but it seems it is similar to the Compiz 'Scale' function, which I liked and miss with openbox. (i.e. http://wiki.compiz.org/Plugins/Scale or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LsrocISlyQ)
Any idea how memory intensive Skippy is?
- Awebb
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Cairo-compmgr adds some sort of an expo.
I still need a tray because of dropbox. They didn't manage to create a clean interface that is accessible without a fscking tray icon.
I'm so meta, even this acronym
- Val_B
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At first when I began messing with openbox and plasma-desktop together I had no taskbar at all. I had just a plasma batter widget, since I could add a system tray widget if I wanted one, I usually just kept it away unless I needed it.
I then set Plasma-desktop to use the right click as the menu and basically I alt-tabbed between applications. Traditional right click functions like add widget and edit this desktop activity were moved to my middle click. it was an interesting setup, very barren except some plasmoids. I also messed around with having no window decorations for a bit.
Eventually plasmoids were replaced by a taskbar made from plasma desktop, and I added a system tray and clock to it and eventually I added a start style menu so that others who use my computer weren't frustrated by the right-clicking and then I added wbar as an additional launcher. I now have 5 ways to do anything.
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Awebb wrote:
Cairo-compmgr adds some sort of an expo.
I still need a tray because of dropbox. They didn't manage to create a clean interface that is accessible without a fscking tray icon.
Stalonetray can take care of that, and can be set to autohide. What I am asking more about is windows management.
- dmhdlr
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Val_B wrote:
At first when I began messing with openbox and plasma-desktop together I had no taskbar at all. I had just a plasma batter widget, since I could add a system tray widget if I wanted one, I usually just kept it away unless I needed it.
I then set Plasma-desktop to use the right click as the menu and basically I alt-tabbed between applications. Traditional right click functions like add widget and edit this desktop activity were moved to my middle click. it was an interesting setup, very barren except some plasmoids. I also messed around with having no window decorations for a bit.
Eventually plasmoids were replaced by a taskbar made from plasma desktop, and I added a system tray and clock to it and eventually I added a start style menu so that others who use my computer weren't frustrated by the right-clicking and then I added wbar as an additional launcher. I now have 5 ways to do anything.
Can you have plasma without KDE?
- Val_B
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Yes, plasma can run outside of a KDE session, and at first I did this using the openbox autostart.sh however, certain services are simply easier running a KDE session from KDM, such as shutdown and whatnot. KDM offers a KDE session with openbox and that is what I use now. KDE can then have the Autostart.sh from openbox added to it's startup scripts and things are really a hybrid at that point. It should be noted, that programs that expect GDM services can still run fine under KDM with it's GDM emulator daemon on.
I think plasma allows for some interesting setups, it is pretty fun to play around with.
Re: Panel-less Openboxes?
I used panel-less Openbox for about a year on my #! 8.04 desktop. It was a nice, ADHD-friendly setup. Alt-Tab and Ctrl-Alt-Left/Right Arrow were sufficient for my window management needs.
Currently in Statler I am happy with the default tint2 setup (buying a bigger monitor didn't hurt either).
Re: Panel-less Openboxes?
Awebb wrote:
Cairo-compmgr adds some sort of an expo.
Thanks for the heads up, I hadn't played around with Cairo and was unaware that it had this feature... I'll be putting this to some use from now on.
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- AwesomeFist
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Re: Panel-less Openboxes?
alt + tab
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- nore
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punk_physicist wrote:
Awebb wrote:Cairo-compmgr adds some sort of an expo.
Thanks for the heads up, I hadn't played around with Cairo and was unaware that it had this feature... I'll be putting this to some use from now on.
In Crunchbang menu choose
Settings > Compositing > Edit cairo-compmgr settings
General > Plugins list > Mosaic window selector > Enable
After enabling compositing with cairo-compmgr
(Settings > Compositing > Enable compositing with cairo-compmgr)
Super+Tab will launch exposé.
Re: Panel-less Openboxes?
nore wrote:
In Crunchbang menu choose
Settings > Compositing > Edit cairo-compmgr settings
General > Plugins list > Mosaic window selector > EnableAfter enabling compositing with cairo-compmgr
(Settings > Compositing > Enable compositing with cairo-compmgr)
Super+Tab will launch exposé.
Thanks nore, I'm a little dense and missed this.
Note: you can also use the command
cairo-compmgr --configureto pull up the cairo-compmgr settings GUI.
Re: Panel-less Openboxes?
+1 alt+tab. Used gnome-do for awhile to start programs on the fly along with the openbox menu.
I've gotten extremely lazy since then and went back to using a panel. xfce4-panel+gnomenu. The start menu of xfce4 didn't suit my tastes and I still use the openbox menu along-side it 