[arch-general] Openbox - great lightweight desktop, similar to icewm, but better in several regards

[Alessandro Doro]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 02:46:44AM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
> only thing I didn't find was an Alt+F2 run command equivalent (I'm sure it's 
> there, I just haven't found it)

You need an extrenal program.
gmrun is very nice; TAB command completion and history search.

>         Additionally, to make it available in the menu, you can add the script 
> as a pipe-menu, or just download the menu.xml from my site and copy it to 
> ~/.config/openbox/ and it is already there under the "System" menu. 
> 
> http://www.3111skyline.com/download/linux/openbox/menu.xml
> 

You can also get a full Arch menu.

1 Install archlinux-xdg-menu.
2 Uncomment openbox in /etc/update-menus.conf
3 Run (as root) /usr/sbin/update-menus ¹

You just created the pipe-menu /var/cache/xdg-menu/openbox/menu.xml,
ready to be catted in the openbox menu configuration file.

¹ Source /etc/profile.d/kde.sh before update-menus if you have kdemod3
installed.