> On 13 Jun 2025, at 17:32, altoid via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
>> On 13 Jun 2025 at 2:38, Steve Litt wrote:
>>
>> ... Openbox with no panel for about 12 years ...
>> ... pair it with a (suckless tools) dmenu program invoker hooked to
>> a convenient hotkey.
>
> Any suggestions?
> (OT, I know)
>
> Best,
>
> A.

A few years ago I read one of Steve’s emails mentioning openbox and decided to give it a go, migrating from XFCE. He has a stack of info on his website that was useful for the initial setup:

https://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/openbox/index.htm

The tip on 6 pixel margin on the left side is excellent as it allows to always have an area available for mouse-click opening the openbox menu.

I haven’t yet got into using dmenu so I’ve stuck with the xfce4-appfinder package hooked to alt+f2 and alt+f3 same as it was in XFCE. This one is good as it searches through .desktop application files in addition to $PATH. If I could get dmenu to somehow search .desktop files then I might give it another go.

https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/start

Also tint2 for a top panel/taskbar and tilda hooked to F1 for a drop-down terminal.

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Tom