Experiences Lubuntu and openbox

[thorbs]

Does anybody have experience with openbox on lubuntu? I have been using chrunchbang for some time, and was very happy with it. But the debian stable repositories had some drawbacks when it came to my work, that I was not able to overcome. So I was thinking of installing openbox and tint on Lubuntu. I am not technically enough to forsee any problems or challenges from this. Have anybody taken this route and can tell about there experiences?


thanks.

[vasa1]

Does anybody have experience with openbox on lubuntu? I have been using chrunchbang for some time, and was very happy with it. But the debian stable repositories had some drawbacks when it came to my work, that I was not able to overcome. So I was thinking of installing openbox and tint on Lubuntu. I am not technically enough to forsee any problems or challenges from this. Have anybody taken this route and can tell about there experiences?
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By default Openbox is part of Lubuntu. Of course, people can always change things, but out-of-the-box, Lubuntu is LXDE+Openbox. IOW, you don't have to install Openbox on Lubuntu

Re. tint, the equivalent default is lxpanel. I haven't used tint and so can't comment on that. See http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201010/page07.html for a still useful look at what lxpanel is about.

[infectedorganism]

Does anybody have experience with openbox on lubuntu? I have been using chrunchbang for some time, and was very happy with it. But the debian stable repositories had some drawbacks when it came to my work, that I was not able to overcome. So I was thinking of installing openbox and tint on Lubuntu. I am not technically enough to forsee any problems or challenges from this. Have anybody taken this route and can tell about there experiences?


thanks.

Currently I am running Lubuntu + Tint2 + Openbox and it is working well. While there is a Openbox session available, I am just using the default Lubuntu session. There have been no real issues setting things up to my liking and it has been fairly easy to do so.

I have played around with Crunchbang, Manjaro, and various other distros that come default with Openbox + Tint2, but I have yet to switch. Partly do to the Ubuntu repositories (all the software I want/use is available), my familiarity with apt, but also because my Lubuntu setup is working so well.

Give it a try. Again, it is fairly easy to get things set up the way you'd like and I have had zero issues yet (been running this Lubuntu + Tint 2 + Openbox combination for over a year) If you have any questions/trouble, I will try to help as best as I am able.

A quick screenshot of my basic desktop:
https://db.tt/W5ON3i2Z

[thorbs]

That looks very nice. I will try it out in the weekend. Chrunchbang is very nice but the stable repositories ended up being a problem. Archbang is also very nice, but is not stable enough for my use. So this seems like just what I am looking for. I want to try and install dmenu as well, which works very nice in #!