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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install openbox using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install openbox
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install openbox using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install openbox
How To Uninstall openbox on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the openbox package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove openbox
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openbox on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
