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  20   <!ENTITY dhucpackage "<refentrytitle>OPENBOX</refentrytitle>">
  21   <!ENTITY dhpackage   "openbox">
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  24 <refentry>
  25   <refmeta>
  26     &dhucpackage;
  27
  28     &dhsection;
  29   </refmeta>
  30   <refnamediv>
  31     <refname>&dhpackage;</refname>
  32
  33     <refpurpose>A minimalistic, highly configurable, next generation window
  34       manager with extensive standards support.</refpurpose>
  35   </refnamediv>
  36   <refsynopsisdiv>
  37     <cmdsynopsis>
  38       <command>&dhpackage;</command>
  39       <arg><option>--help</option></arg>
  40       <arg><option>--version</option></arg>
  41       <arg><option>--replace</option></arg>
  42       <arg><option>--reconfigure</option></arg>
  43       <arg><option>--restart</option></arg>
  44       <arg><option>--sm-disable</option></arg>
  45       <arg><option>--sync</option></arg>
  46       <arg><option>--debug</option></arg>
  47       <arg><option>--debug-focus</option></arg>
  48       <arg><option>--debug-xinerama</option></arg>
  49     </cmdsynopsis>
  50   </refsynopsisdiv>
  51   <refsect1>
  52     <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
  53
  54     <para>Openbox is minimalistic, highly configurable, next generation window
  55       manager with extensive standards support.</para>
  56
  57     <para>You can start Openbox in three ways:</para>
  58
  59     <para>If you run a display manager such as GDM, you will find 3 entries
  60       in the login session type menu for Openbox:
  61       <command>GNOME/Openbox</command>, <command>KDE/Openbox</command>
  62       and <command>Openbox</command>. If you want to use Openbox
  63       within GNOME or KDE, you can choose the appropriate entry, and it will
  64       launch GNOME or KDE with Openbox as the window manager.</para>
  65
  66     <para>The third option at log in, which is <command>Openbox</command>
  67       without a session manager, uses the <command>openbox-session</command>
  68       command to start Openbox. On log in, <command>&dhpackage;</command> will
  69       run the ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh script if it exists, and will run
  70       the system-wide script @configdir@/openbox/autostart.sh otherwise. You
  71       may place anything you want to run automatically in those files, for
  72       example:
  73       </para>
  74
  75     <blockquote><literallayout>
  76       xsetroot -solid grey &
  77       gnome-settings-daemon &</literallayout></blockquote>
  78
  79     <para>Make sure that each line is followed by a "&" or else the script will
  80       stop there and further commands will not be executed. You can use the
  81       @configdir@/openbox/autostart.sh file as an example for creating your
  82       own.</para>
  83
  84     <para>The default @configdir@/openbox/autostart.sh runs a number of things
  85       with Openbox.</para>
  86
  87     <para>Lastly, if you use <command>startx</command> to launch your X
  88       session, you can set up a ~/.xinitrc file to run
  89       <command>openbox-session</command> and follow the same directions as
  90       above regarding the autostart.sh file.</para>
  91
  92     <para>You can use the <command>obconf</command> tool to configure Openbox
  93       easily with a graphical interface, however more in-depth configuration
  94       is possible by editing the configuration files by hand.</para>
  95
  96     <para>The default configuration and menu files are installed in
  97       @configdir@/openbox/, and the user configuration is placed in
  98       ~/.config/openbox/. You can copy the default configuration and menus
  99       to ~/.config/openbox and edit it to your liking.</para>
 100   </refsect1>
 101   <refsect1>
 102     <title>OPTIONS</title>
 103
 104     <para>These are the possible options that <command>&dhpackage;</command> accepts:</para>
 105     <variablelist>
 106       <varlistentry>
 107         <term><option>--help</option></term>
 108         <listitem>
 109           <para>Show a summary of the command line options available
 110             and exit.</para>
 111         </listitem>
 112       </varlistentry>
 113       <varlistentry>
 114         <term><option>--version</option></term>
 115         <listitem>
 116           <para>Show the version of the program and exit.</para>
 117         </listitem>
 118       </varlistentry>
 119       <varlistentry>
 120         <term><option>--replace</option></term>
 121         <listitem>
 122           <para>Replace the currently running window manager.</para>
 123         </listitem>
 124       </varlistentry>
 125       <varlistentry>
 126         <term><option>--config-file FILE</option></term>
 127         <listitem>
 128           <para>Specify the path to the config file to use.</para>
 129         </listitem>
 130       </varlistentry>
 131       <varlistentry>
 132         <term><option>--reconfigure</option></term>
 133         <listitem>
 134           <para>If Openbox is already running on the display, tell it to
 135             reload its configuration.</para>
 136         </listitem>
 137       </varlistentry>
 138       <varlistentry>
 139         <term><option>--restart</option></term>
 140         <listitem>
 141           <para>If Openbox is already running on the display, tell it to
 142             restart. This is useful if you have upgraded Openbox and don't
 143             want to restart X.</para>
 144         </listitem>
 145       </varlistentry>
 146       <varlistentry>
 147         <term><option>--exit</option></term>
 148         <listitem>
 149           <para>Exit Openbox.</para>
 150         </listitem>
 151       </varlistentry>
 152       <varlistentry>
 153         <term><option>--sm-disable</option></term>
 154         <listitem>
 155           <para>Do not connect to the session manager.</para>
 156         </listitem>
 157       </varlistentry>
 158       <varlistentry>
 159         <term><option>--sync</option></term>
 160         <listitem>
 161           <para>Run in synchronous mode (for debugging).</para>
 162         </listitem>
 163       </varlistentry>
 164       <varlistentry>
 165         <term><option>--startup CMD</option></term>
 166         <listitem>
 167           <para>Run CMD after starting.</para>
 168         </listitem>
 169       </varlistentry>
 170       <varlistentry>
 171         <term><option>--debug</option></term>
 172         <listitem>
 173           <para>Display debugging output.</para>
 174         </listitem>
 175       </varlistentry>
 176       <varlistentry>
 177         <term><option>--debug-focus</option></term>
 178         <listitem>
 179           <para>Display debugging output for focus handling.</para>
 180         </listitem>
 181       </varlistentry>
 182       <varlistentry>
 183         <term><option>--debug-session</option></term>
 184         <listitem>
 185           <para>Display debugging output for session management.</para>
 186         </listitem>
 187       </varlistentry>
 188       <varlistentry>
 189         <term><option>--debug-xinerama</option></term>
 190         <listitem>
 191           <para>Split the display into two fake xinerama regions, if
 192             xinerama is not already enabled. This is for debugging
 193             xinerama support.</para>
 194         </listitem>
 195       </varlistentry>
 196     </variablelist>
 197   </refsect1>
 198   <refsect1>
 199     <title>SEE ALSO</title>
 200
 201     <para>obconf (1), openbox-session(1), openbox-gnome-session(1),
 202       openbox-kde-session(1).</para>
 203
 204     <para>The program's full documentation is available on the website:
 205       <literal>http://openbox.org/</literal></para>
 206
 207     <para>Please report bugs to: <literal>http://bugzilla.icculus.org/
 208       </literal></para>
 209   </refsect1>
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