Comments on: Migrating to a minimalistic desktop

By: Markos

Markos — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:11:35 +0000

@Rajat

I decided to create the menu list on my own since I found it more convenient :)

@Nathan

Your guide was excellent. It made the transition really easy. :) Great Job

@Markus
I don’t understand what are you talking about. Blackbox and Openbox are completely different projects

By: Mikael Magnusson

Mikael Magnusson — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:22:45 +0000

btw, if anyone wonders, my user agent lies, I am using gentoo ;).

By: Mikael Magnusson

Mikael Magnusson — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:21:42 +0000

@6, I have no idea what you’re talking about. Openbox 3 is completely unrelated to blackbox, codewise. If you don’t like the GPL, I’m not sure what you’re doing with gentoo. I see now on your website that you’re a bsd troll, so never mind.

By: Markus Peloquin

Markus Peloquin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:29:15 +0000

All Openbox is to me is a Blackbox fork with a restrictive license. I have to wonder why they put ‘open’ in their name. Some kind of joke? On principal, I don’t use anything that relicenses software to be more restrictive.

I use Fluxbox. I am too lazy to try anything else. I once used fvwm-crystal, and xfce might be good. meh.

By: Nathan Zachary

Nathan Zachary — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:22:08 +0000

Hey Markos,

I’m glad that you decided to try Openbox; it is my WM of choice. I hope that you found the installation guide useful. Is there anything you would recommend that I add to it?

Thanks,
Nathan Zachary

By: Rajat

Rajat — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:39:03 +0000

Tint2 works better than lxpanel.
Use MenuMaker to fix the Openbox Menu.

By: Markos

Markos — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:35:15 +0000

The panel is the lxpanel ( lxde-base/lxpanel ). In which notification area are you referring to ?