replace xfwm with openbox

[psauxw]

Hello everyone!,

I've been happy with xfce4 and xdm so far but I want to try openbox and I'm getting stuck at some point.

I tried to replace my xfwm with openbox doing
sudo apt-get remove xfwm4
sudo apt-get install openbox

everything is working exept i cant move and resize windows while in openbox.

Any help would be gladly appreciated!

Thanks for your time!

[psauxw]

come on 40 views and no replies :(

[3Miro]

"remove" uninstalls a program, this is now what you want. You probably removed xfwm4 and now you don't have WM. Install xfwm4 back:

sudo apt-get install xfwm4

If you want to try OpenBox under XFCE, then you should use the command:

openbox --replace

You will have both xfwm4 and OpenBox and the --replace command will switch between them on-the-fly.

[psauxw]

thanks i finally went ahead and reinstalled xfce4 from a ubuntu-desktop iso instead of a mini iso (30mb) and did openbox --replace.

saved session so now openbox is the default WM.

Thanks for your help.