Install Openbox on Slackware
June 04, 2023 —
Gregg Szumowski
I have been running blackbox on my Slackware desktop and decided that
I’d try a different ‘flavor’ called openbox which are in the SBo
repositories. I started by executing sbopkg at the
root prompt and found these packages available:
There is the primary openbox package and there are 4
optional packages listed:
- openbox
- libfm-extra
- lxmenu-data
- menu-cache
- openbox-menu
And several theme packages:
- arc-openbox
- openbox-simple-theme
The openbox-menu and openbox-simple-theme downloads failed but I was
able to get away with using obconf and obmenu
tools.
Configuration files are stored in /etc/xdg/openbox and
you should copy the menu.xml file to
~/.config/openbox/ so that you can customize your menu.