[SOLVED] Open Box

[deadlySniper]

What Open Box do I use if I want to use it. KDE or GNOME

[jw5801]

openbox is a window manager, it could be used to replace the native window managers in either KDE or Gnome, or it could be used as it's own desktop environment (completely seperate to KDE or Gnome or Xfce).

[akiratheoni]

You could use it instead of metacity and use it alongside KDE or GNOME, but personally I don't feel you're getting the optimal speed if you're doing that... use it standalone without KDE or GNOME and you'll get incredible speeds out of it.

[deadlySniper]

so it doesnt matter which file I download

[jw5801]

Please give more detail in your posts. What files are you looking at, and where are you looking at them?

[deadlySniper]

http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Main_Page which would I use

[akiratheoni]

so it doesnt matter which file I download

Why are you looking at files?

Here's a tutorial I made awhile ago, hopefully it'll help, I tried to make it as detailed as possible.

http://blog.zantherus.com/2008/02/09...on-ubuntu-710/

The directions are for 7.10 but it should work for 8.04.

EDIT: Openbox is already in the repositories, check out my tutorial and it'll help you.

[atomkarinca]

http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Main_Page which would I use

Openbox is in the repositories:

sudo apt-get install openbox

I suggest also installing the configuration tools:

sudo apt-get install obmenu obconf

[jw5801]

http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Main_Page which would I use

Those aren't downloads. Those are guides on running OpenBox inside either Gnome or KDE, as discussed above. You can install it from the repositories:

sudo apt-get install openbox

If you want to run it standalone, log out and at the login screen click on the 'sessions' button and choose openbox from there. Otherwise take a look at the instructions on that page to match your desktop environment (Gnome if you're in a base install of Ubuntu, KDE for Kubuntu, although you can install both on either).

I'd also suggest you take a look at the 'Getting the best help' link in my signature. One line questions don't help us get to a solution for you particularly quickly. Try and give us some idea of what you've done and what you're trying to achieve.

[deadlySniper]

thanks