Suggestion for Debian 13: A Openbox enviornment that would work perfect in Debian

[OB]

Hi team Debian!

First, thanks for all you've done over the decades. Debian is superior in every shape and form. Now to my suggestion, I've recently talked to some friends of mine about the tiling window manager Openbox which we all love and our convo ended up being about what Debian offers in regards to the DEs on installation and that we would all like to see a Openbox edition.

And one of them mention Crunchbangplusplus which is a fork of Crunchbang, a Debian based distro, and that the simplicity of that Openbox enviornment that they've set up would be just perfect for Debian and that it would've been a nice edition to what is already offered on installation in regards to the DE:

https://www.crunchbangplusplus.org/

https://github.com/CBPP/cbpp

All the best / OB

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[Arnaud Rebillout]

On 17/01/2024 07:21, OB wrote:

First, thanks for all you've done over the decades. Debian is superior in every shape and form. Now to my suggestion, I've recently talked to some friends of mine about the tiling window manager Openbox which we all love and our convo ended up being about what Debian offers in regards to the DEs on installation and that we would all like to see a Openbox edition.

I used Openbox (and Crunchbang) and really liked it, but that was like... 10 years ago?

As far as I know, Openbox has been abandoned for a long time now, as you can see:

- official news page: http://openbox.org/wiki/Openbox:News
- original repo: https://github.com/danakj/openbox (last commit 9 years ago)
- what Debian packages: https://github.com/Mikachu/openbox (last commit 6 years ago)

I don't think anyone would work on a Debian edition based on a dead project. However, I see that someone still maintains the package in Debian, I added them in CC in case they want to comment.

Best,

Arnaud

[Louis-Philippe Véronneau]

I'm still an Openbox user and I like it very much. Sadly, Xorg is slowly
dying and I feel it's time to move on and start thinking of it as
deprecated software.

labwc (a wayland DE heavily inspired by Openbox) has been recently
packaged in Debian by Birger Schacht and is what I'm intending to
migrate to.

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On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 11:33:19AM -0500, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:

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> I'm still an Openbox user and I like it very much. Sadly, Xorg is slowly
> dying and I feel it's time to move on and start thinking of it as deprecated
> software.

I seriously hope X11 holds until I don't need computers anymore...

Cheers
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