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6. Features

Minimalistic visual interface

Extremely fast

Translations to over 20 languages

Solid and reliable look and feel

*box style themes with a huge number of enhancements

Advanced focus cycling dialog (with faded iconic windows)

Focus cycling to panels and desktop windows

Focus cycling across all desktops

Combined client list menu (with faded iconic windows)

Dynamically built menus with Pipe menus

Caching pipe menus

Auto start programs when logging in graphically

Graphical log in options for GNOME or KDE with Openbox as the window manager

Supports 32-bit true transparent windows

Extensive language rendering support

Configurable mouse interaction with windows (Mouse bindings)

Extensively configurable key bindings

Dynamic desktops (add and remove desktops in any order)

Emacs key-chain key bindings

Key-chain on screen display

Chrootable key bindings and key quoting

Extensive Xinerama (TwinView) support

Multiple screen support (Through running multiple instances of Openbox - they cooperate with other screens)

Actively maintained

True partial-strut support

Application launching notification from Openbox menus

Keyboard shortcuts in all menus

Show hostname in the titlebar for remote clients

Complete EWMH support (1.4-draft2)

Laptop power friendly (support for user-time window property)

Animated iconify and restore

Support for applications from all desktops and toolkits

Synchronized window resizing

Flexible and powerful per-window settings

Moving maximized windows between monitors on Xinerama (TwinView) setups

User specified fonts

Resize handles around the edge of window frames

 

Openbox provides three menu options that will be in the Session Type menu when you are logging in, if they are available. The "GNOME/Openbox" option will only be present if you have GNOME installed, and the "KDE/Openbox" option will appear only if KDE is installed.