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 +=====Customizing Openbox=====
 +
 +After installing Openbox, I began following an online tutorial on customizing the window manager.
 +
 +It was recommended that I install certain themes, obconf and pypanel:
 +
 +<cli>
 +sudo apt-get install obconf openbox-themes pypanel
 +</cli>
 +
 +The first portion that is edited is the menu, which is done by editing the menu.xml file. There are multiple methods given to edit the menu. I am using a few, just to try them out. The first one is the **obconf** program, which allows me to customize openbox graphically. I also looked directly into the **//menu.xml//** file and edited a few things. These were my findings so far:
 +
 +====menu.xml====
 +
 +The file contents:
 +
 +<code c>
 +  1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 +  2 
 +  3 <openbox_menu xmlns="http://openbox.org/"
 +  4         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 +  5         xsi:schemaLocation="http://openbox.org/
 +  6                 file:///usr/share/openbox/menu.xsd">
 +  7 
 +  8 <menu id="root-menu" label="Openbox 3">
 +  9   <item label="Terminal emulator">
 + 10     <action name="Execute"><execute>x-terminal-emulator</execute></action>
 + 11   </item>
 + 12   <item label="Web browser">
 + 13     <action name="Execute"><execute>x-www-browser</execute></action>
 + 14   </item>
 + 15   <!-- This requires the presence of the 'menu' package to work -->
 + 16   <menu id="/Debian" />
 + 17   <separator />
 + 18   <menu id="client-list-menu" />
 + 19   <separator />
 + 20   <item label="ObConf">
 + 21     <action name="Execute"><execute>obconf</execute></action>
 + 22   </item>
 + 23   <item label="Reconfigure">
 + 24     <action name="Reconfigure" />
 + 25   </item>
 + 26   <item label="Restart">
 + 27     <action name="Restart" />
 + 28   </item>
 + 29   <separator />
 + 30   <item label="Exit">
 + 31     <action name="Exit" />
 + 32   </item>
 + 33 </menu>
 + 34 
 + 35 </openbox_menu>
 +</code>
 +
 +We will refer to the file in a bit. The next step on the tutorial page is setting up a background image.
 +
 +====Background Setup====
 +
 +I first install feh:
 +
 +<cli>
 +sudo apt-get install feh
 +</cli>
 +
 +Then run the following:
 +
 +<cli>
 +feh --bg-scale path/to/the/image.ext
 +</cli>
 +
 +Setting the wallpaper this way is not permanent, but it will have to do for now. Later on in the tutorial I will be setting it permanently. For now, I will make shell script that I will run at startup that will set the background.
 +
  

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