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Topic: Has anyone ever installed openbox on DSL?

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pcdoctor

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Posted: April 03 2008,09:11

I think I like the way openbox is designed as far as opening folders, volumes, etc.
Has anyone ever installed openbox on DSL?
I'm installing DSL on a pc for a cousin and I think she would be more comfortable using openbox.

Juanito

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Posted: April 03 2008,09:39

I guess you are speaking of using openbox without the gnome or kde desktops - even then, it looks like it requires glib-2, xml-2, etc, and so will probably be large and heavy on resources.

..but no, I didn't try.

pcdoctor

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Posted: April 03 2008,10:38

thx

lucky13

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Posted: April 03 2008,11:20

Openbox is a pig and it doesn't open folders, etc. That's the job of a file manager, not a window manager. I don't know with which distro you've run into openbox, but you're most likely using rox as a file manager in it. MyDSL has a GTK1 version of rox and it works quite well with jwm.

Comparisons:

SIZE
openbox 3312
jwm 416

RSS
openbox 7780
jwm 2656

VSIZE
openbox 11676
jwm 4736

LIBRARIES
openbox 31
jwm 19
http://gilesorr.com/wm/memory.html

FWIW, rox is sizable compared to dfm in terms of RAM use, disk space, cpu cycles, and inodes (especially if you use rox as it was designed with AppDirs).

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