<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">stolen from this thread : <a href="http://www.justlinux.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-113078.html">http://www.justlinux.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-113078.html</a></span></div>
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</span></div>Open box 2.x was originally based on the blackbox code, just like fluxbox. the main difference was that Openbox 2.x didn't have tabs, originally had better antialised font support, and had the key-grabber as a separate process rather than built into the main executable like flux. flux had some things such as slit ordering (controlling the order things load into the slit), automatic window grouping. The taskbar in Openbox 2.x behaved differently that the Fluxbox - most people who used Openbox 2.x turned off the taskbar.<br>
<br>The new Openbox 3 is a complete rewrite. It contains no blackbox code or code from any other WM. It still has no tabs and never will have them. It now uses XML based config files and a slightly different theming engine format. it was designed first to be stable and standards compliant (it complies with the opendesktop standards in every way (is a drop in replacement for Metacity under gnome). Openbox 3 has no taskbar.<br>
<br>Fluxbox is still based on the same codebase as before (blackbox).</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><br>
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">also noted supposable better anti-aliased fonts and faster render engine. </span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">openbox does not come with a app tray or task bar meaning you can run whatever one you want. eg. tint2, trayer, pypanel, lxdebar etc..</span></span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"> </span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">another link on tabs in window managers</span></span></div>
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</span>the "why tabs in a WM suck" debate (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20030626002221/http://www.nerdnest.org/~woodblock/2003/04/23/">http://web.archive.org/web/20030626002221/http://www.nerdnest.org/~woodblock/2003/04/23/</a>)</span></div>
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><br>
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">NOTE: these are not my veiws. I have not used fluxbox but have fallen in love with openbox + tint2 as installed on crunchbang linux <a href="http://www.crunchbang.org">http://www.crunchbang.org</a> whichis based on the cli install (mini iso) + crunchbang install script. or precompiled live iso. Hence forth these packages are in the ubuntu repositories. and the repositories for most other distros. </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><br>
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">note these are not the only two light wieght window managers. some other examples would be </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">awsome, lxde, mosit, xfce, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Enlightenment etc... (loads more including that one begining with M that rick was talking about a wee while ago) </span></span></div>
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</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><br>
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">later </span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">azmodie</span></span></div>