![]() Basic Openbox session | |
Developer(s) | Dana Jansens,[1][2] Mikael Magnusson[3] |
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Initial release | 18 September 2002 |
Stable release | 3.6.1[4] ![]() |
Repository | |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Unix-like |
Type | Stacking window manager |
License | GPL 2.0 or later[5] |
Website | openbox![]() |
Openbox is a free, stacking window manager for the X Window System, licensed under the GNU General Public License.[5] Originally derived from Blackbox[5] 0.65.0 (a C++ project), Openbox has been completely re-written in the C programming language and since version 3.0 is no longer based upon any code from Blackbox.[6] Since at least 2010, it has been considered feature complete, bug free and a completed project. Occasional maintenance is done to keep it working, but only if needed.[7]
Openbox is designed to be small, fast, and fully compliant with the Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual (ICCCM) and Extended Window Manager Hints (EWMH).[8] It supports many features such as menus by which the user can control applications or which display various dynamic information.[5]
Openbox is the standard window manager in LXDE, and often set as the default for LXQt. It is used in Linux distributions such as BunsenLabs, ArchBang, Lubuntu, Trisquel and Manjaro.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
The creator and primary author of Openbox is Dana Jansens of Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.[1][17]