How To Install openbox on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openbox
on CentOS 7.
What is openbox
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.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install openbox
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install openbox.
Install openbox on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install openbox
using yum
by running the following command:
Install openbox on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install openbox
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall openbox on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the openbox
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openbox
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.