Easy Openbox Window Manager

It is a simple script that will install Openbox Window Manager.

How to install (Automatic)

--Experimental--

This is only for arch linux distro's

bash setup.sh --install

How to install (Manual)

Installing Openbox

On Arch based distros, use the following command:

• Install required dependencies

  sudo pacman -S  xorg xorg-font-util xorg-xrdb xorg-xdm  xorg-server xorg-xinit sxhkd \
  xfce4-settings xfce4-terminal polybar ranger rofi startup-notification thunar   \
  openbox   obconf xarchiver dbus desktop-file-utils elinks gtk2 gtk3 man flameshot \
  zsh git  vim nano curl wget jq xarchiver firefox imagemagick geany alacritty gedit \
  bc bmon calc calcurse feh htop scrot mpc mpd mutt ncmpcpp neofetch  openssl leafpad \
  xmlstarlet xbitmaps ranger  xcompmgr nitrogen brightnessctl alsa-utils imv maim mpv pamixer

Note: I'm using Arch Linux for this tutorial. However, the below commands and steps will be same for other arch linux distros.

• Clone this repository

  cd ~/
  git clone https://github.com/sumithemmadi/EasyOpenboxWM.git
  cd EasyOpenboxWM

• First you need to backup your .config or dotfiles run below command in the same directory (EasyOpenboxWM).

• If you don't want any backup, you can ignore this part.

  configs=($(ls -A $(pwd)/files))
    for file in "${configs[@]}"; do
    if [[ -f "$HOME/$file" || -d "$HOME/$file" ]]; then
      { mv -u ${HOME}/${file}{,.old}; }  
    fi
  done

• Run below command to install open box config files.

  configs=($(ls -A $(pwd)/files))
  for _config in "${configs[@]}"; do
    cp -rf $(pwd)/files/$_config $HOME;
  done

• And wait for some time untill installation is done.

Initialize And Start Openbox

Add openbox to the .xinitrc file:

echo “exec openbox-session” > ~/.xinitrc

Start Openbox Window Manager:

startx

Keybindings

Here's some shortcut keys you want to use to speed up your work. For more, Right click on desktop > Keybinds

Keys	Action	-----	Keys	Action
W-1	Go To Desktop 1		S-W-1	Send To Desktop 1
W-2	Go To Desktop 2		S-W-2	Send To Desktop 2
W-3	Go To Desktop 3		S-W-3	Send To Desktop 3
W-4	Go To Desktop 4		S-W-4	Send To Desktop 4
W-5	Go To Desktop 5		S-W-5	Send To Desktop 5
W-S-Left	Send To Prev Desktop		W-S-Right	Send To Next Desktop
A-Tab	Next Window (Current Workspace)		W-Tab	Next Window (All Workspaces)
W-h	Move to TopLeft		W-j	Move to BottomLeft
W-k	Move to TopRight		W-l	Move to BottomRight
W-Left	Move To Left Edge		W-Right	Move To Right Edge
W-Up	Maximized		W-Down	Unmaximized
W-q/c	Close Windows		A-r/m	Toggle Resize/Move
W-Space	Openbox Menu		W-p/A-F1	App Launcher
W-d	Toggle Desktop		W-v	Set Tasks
W-f	File Manager		W-e	Text Editor
W-t/return	Terminal		W-w	Web Browser
W-x	Exit Menu		W-m	Music Menu
W-b	Battery Menu		W-n	Network Menu
C-A-v	Vim		C-A-r	Ranger
C-A-h	Htop		C-A-n	Nano

Additional Tools

Install Paru AUR helper in Arch Linux, EndeavourOS, Manjaro Linux

Installing Paru in Arch Linux is easy!

1. First, install git and base-devel package group that includes tools needed for building (compiling and linking) packages from source.

   sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel

2. Git clone Paru repository using command:

   git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru-bin.git

   This command will download the contents of the Paru GitHub repository in a local directory named paru-bin

3. Change into the paru-bin directory:

   cd paru-bin

4. Finally, build and install Paru AUR helper in Arch Linux using the following command:

   makepkg -sri

   You can use paru for install packages from AUR

oh-my-zsh

1. Setup zsh with oh-my-zsh framework.

   paru -S oh-my-zsh-git oh-my-zsh-plugin-syntax-highlighting oh-my-zsh-plugin-autosuggestions

Additional Information

• Edit ~/.local/bin/email and put your Email ID and Password (Use an App password) to show unread mails on polybar.
• You may need to edit some config files accoring to your need (~/.mutt/muttrc)