How to organize the desktops in square instead of in line ?

Not sure I totally understand the question but have a look in rc.xml keybindings section and at http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/He … ns#Desktop and http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Help:Bindings to get a better idea of what you are looking at.

I wonder if you couldn't set the arrows in place of the meta key pager in rc.xml so something like

    <keybind key="C-A-Up">
      <action name="Desktop">
        <desktop>1</desktop>
      </action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="C-A-Down">
      <action name="Desktop">
        <desktop>2</desktop>
      </action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="C-A-Left">
      <action name="Desktop">
        <desktop>3</desktop>
      </action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="C-A-Right">
      <action name="Desktop">
        <desktop>4</desktop>
      </action>
     </keybind>

Last edited by fhsm (2009-04-26 21:23:40)

Oh, I see.  I've got the desktop pager GUI disabled.  I tend to think about desktop layout more in keyboard space than gui space.

Are you still using LX-Panel?  If so the LXDE wiki makes it look like the configuration options on the panel applet are limited to non-existent.

Plugin {
    type = pager
}

I'm afraid I can't offer any help on the GUI front.  Maybe someone else knows how to configure the pager gui, or you could try asking in the LXDE forums.

Sorry to not be more helpful.  I think the GUI you are talking about is the Openbox configuration gui which is going to control what desktops you've got available.  The little pictures of the desktops are provided by the panel (specifically the desktop pager applet), which I think is still LX Panel out of the box.

Good luck.  If you end up finding an answer please do post it back.  I'd be interested in hearing how you do it.

Thank you for the first link, I will maybe understand something about how work the things, because for the moment I'm a little bit lost between openbox, lxpanel, GUI-something, GTK etc etc... I never know what is supposed to do what

And after I will have a look to a pager