Transform Your Ubuntu GNOME Desktop – Install OpenBox Ubuntu

12/02/2020

In this guide, you will get to see how to install Openbox on Ubuntu so you can transform your Ubuntu 17.04 GNOME desktop to something sleeker, cleaner and faster. Openbox is a window desktop manager that is highly configurable, hence allowing you change every aspect of your desktop you interact with. Before we proced on how to install and configure Openbox on Ubuntu GNOME 17.04, lets take a quick look at some of Openbox features.

install openbox ubuntu

Openbox Features

  • Comes with supports for 32-bit true transparent windows
  • Offers a minimalistic visual interface, and its extremely fast
  • Uses *box style themes with a huge number of enhancements
  • It can auto start programs when logging in graphically
  • Supports multiple screen through running multiple instances of Openbox,and they can cooperate with other screens
  • Application launching notification from Openbox menus
  • Offers support for applications from all desktops as well as toolkits
  • Windows synchronizes when resizing
  • You can configure the mouse interaction with windows (Mouse bindings)
  • and many more

1) How to install Openbox on Ubuntu 17.04

  • Simply run the following command to install openbox
sudo apt install openbox obconf
  • Logout of your desktop > while on the login screen, select “Openbox” as the new desktop environment and log back in

install openbox ubuntu

2) Add a Dock to Openbox

  • When logged in, you will notice that the screen has nothing in it. So lets start by adding a Dock. You can install Dash to Dock or Cairo dock. For this post, I will install Cairo Dock
  • To accomplish this, first right-click on the screen and select Terminal emulator

install openbox ubuntu

  • Next run the following commands to install Cairo Dock
sudo apt install xcompmgr cairo-dock
  • Create the directory “~/.config/openbox” and file “~/.config/openbox/autostart”. Then add the following entries into the autostart file
# create folder and file
cd ~/.config
mkdir openbox
cd openbox

# Edit file using any file editing tool like nano, vim, gedit etc
nano autostart

# Add following entries and save
xcompmgr &
cairo-dock &

[the_ad_placement id=”content-1″]

  • Restart openbox with following command or simple logoff and login again if command does not work
openbox --reconfigure

install openbox ubuntu

3) Configure Openbox

  • Openbox configuration manager comes with a couple of configurable tabs, which you can use to style your desktop appearance. You the following:
    • Theme Tab – Select your desired theme colour
    • Appearance Tab – Adjust windows looks, including windows tiling, font family as well as icon animation
    • Windows Tab – Set your primary windows, windows focusing as well as placement
    • Move & resize – Here you can resize your window
    • Mouse – Set actions that happens when you use your mouse
    • Desktops – Set multiple desktop sessions and switch between them
    • Margins – Allows you adjust your windows screen edges, by reserving a few pixels around it
    • Dock – You can set how and where your dock appears on your desktop

install openbox ubuntu

4) Setup a Wallpaper

[the_ad_placement id=”content-1″]

install openbox ubuntu

  • Continue if you want to participate or skip
  • On Variety Preferences adjust your settings accordingly and close

install openbox ubuntu

  • Now wait based on the time frame selected and the wallpaper would start appearing and change after set time

install openbox ubuntu

ONET IDC thành lập vào năm 2012, là công ty chuyên nghiệp tại Việt Nam trong lĩnh vực cung cấp dịch vụ Hosting, VPS, máy chủ vật lý, dịch vụ Firewall Anti DDoS, SSL… Với 10 năm xây dựng và phát triển, ứng dụng nhiều công nghệ hiện đại, ONET IDC đã giúp hàng ngàn khách hàng tin tưởng lựa chọn, mang lại sự ổn định tuyệt đối cho website của khách hàng để thúc đẩy việc kinh doanh đạt được hiệu quả và thành công.
Bài viết liên quan

How to Change IP Address on Ubuntu

In this post we will try to change the IP address of a Ubuntu based Linux system from the command line. Though we will be...
12/02/2020

Test Drive Ubuntu 17.10 Server Distro on DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean is a cloud services provider that is quick to setup and easy to manage.  This makes it the perfect choice for...
12/02/2020

How to install SQLite 3.18.0 on Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Linux Mint

SQLite 3.18.0 recently released, is free and its the most widely deployed database engine in the world. It can be described...
12/02/2020
Bài Viết

Bài Viết Mới Cập Nhật

Tìm Hiểu Về Thuê Proxy US – Lợi Ích và Cách Sử Dụng Hiệu Quả
11/12/2024

Mua Proxy V6 Nuôi Facebook Spam Hiệu Quả Tại Onetcomvn
03/06/2024

Hướng dẫn cách sử dụng ProxyDroid để duyệt web ẩn danh
03/06/2024

Mua proxy Onet uy tín tại Onet.com.vn
03/06/2024

Thuê mua IPv4 giá rẻ, tốc độ nhanh, uy tín #1
28/05/2024