Information about the package, openbox, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The openbox package is designed for, A highly configurable and standards-compliant X11 window manager.
Package Name:
openbox
Summary:
A highly configurable and standards-compliant X11 window manager
URL:
Description:
Openbox is a window manager designed explicity for standards-compliance and speed. It is fast, lightweight, and heavily configurable (using XML for its configuration data). It has many features that make it unique among window managers: window resistance, chainable key bindings, customizable mouse actions, multi-head/Xinerama support, and dynamically generated "pipe menus." For a full list of the FreeDesktop.org standards with which it is compliant, please see the COMPLIANCE file in the included documentation of this package. For a graphical configuration editor, you'll need to install the obconf package. For a graphical menu editor, you'll need to install the obmenu package.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.5.0
Release:
4.el6
Size:
283 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the openbox package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install openbox
This command will install openbox on the server.
yum remove openbox
This command will un-install openbox on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove openbox, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove openbox
This command will un-install openbox on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove openbox when using the -y flag.
yum update openbox
This command will update openbox to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove openbox, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update openbox
This command will update openbox to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove openbox when using the -y flag.
yum info openbox
This command will show you core information about the openbox package.
yum deplist openbox
This command will show you the dependencies for openbox. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update openbox
This command will check if there is an update waiting on openbox. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.