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Is it possible to have an "Always on top" feature in (L)ubuntu?
Problem solved!
Right-click the Window Decoration (Upper Window Border) => Layer => Always
on top
Credit goes to "drooly" at the LXDE forums
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Lubuntu 19.10 & 20.04: How to tile windows? The window tiling section is missing in lxqt-rc.xml
Edit dated 20220907: As of LXQt 0.17.0 (April 2021), "Openbox configuration is removed for the sake of WM agnosticism," and ~/.config/openbox/lxqt-rc.xml is no longer recognized, while ~/....
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How can window snap be enabled in Openbox?
I know I can do this with keyboard shortcuts, but not with the mouse unfortunately. I do not think the openbox configuration file have support for a "on drag" mouse event.
<keybind key="W-Left">...
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Google chrome remote desktop connection only display wallpaper
There is no solution, since there is no problem.
Chrome Remote Desktop (as a default behaviour) does not allow you to control the ongoing session.
Instead, it creates another virtual session on tty20, ...
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Any volume control applet for openbox?
EDIT MAY 16 2015
Since upgrading to 15.04, gnome-control-center has been misbehaving and gnome-sound-applet disappeared, so I've decided to search for other alternatives, and found volti. Works ...
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How to run commands in Openbox?
First after installing openbox, copy the base configuration of openbox to your own home directory for customization purpose:
mkdir -p ~/.config/openbox
cp /etc/xdg/openbox/* ~/.config/openbox/
now ...
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How can I change user from command line
This also works in Lubuntu 15.04 with LightDM as display manager:
dm-tool switch-to-greeter
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How to install the printer installer on Ubuntu Server with Openbox?
you can install the system-config-printer like that found in Unity:
sudo apt-get install system-config-printer-gnome
Now you can run it from terminal:
system-config-printer
If you don't have cups ...
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meaning of different sessions in lubuntu
In short,
The Lubuntu session is LXDE+Openbox customized by the Lubuntu developers
The LXDE session is vanilla LXDE+Openbox
The Openbox session is just Openbox
Lubuntu is a distro that uses the ...
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How to install the printer installer on Ubuntu Server with Openbox?
CUPS should be enough on its own (sudo apt install cups) and will be the base requirement of almost any printing system in Ubuntu.
CUPS has a web interface that does quite a lot more than the usual ...
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Perform action when moving mouse cursor to certain position in Lubuntu (hot corner)
One way to accomplish this is via xdotool. From xdotool's manual:
behave_screen_edge [options] where command ...
Bind an action to events when the mouse hits the screen edge or corner.
...
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Any volume control applet for openbox?
PNMixer is another alternative, it's a fairly complete and configurable sound applet. It's been around for a while now, and it's well maintained.
There's an Ubuntu package here:
https://launchpad.net/...
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How can I change user from command line
Lightdm controls the login window.
You need to access a terminal, by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1.
Then login as any user with sudo (root) privileges.
You will be presented with a command prompt. The only ...
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Openbox configuration issue
Once you open nautilus, a daemon stays open and this controls the background. So once you've started the nautilus daemon, just find the nautilus process and kill it, and then you can control your ...
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How to run a script when opening OpenBox?
If it doesn't exist, create a file in your ~/.config/openbox directory called autostart or autostart.sh (both should work). If the openbox directory doesn't exist, create that as well.
In this file, ...
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How to select a column of text in Sublime Text 3?
Although the use of Ctrl+Alt+↑ and Ctrl+Alt+↓ are currently suggested for column selection in Sublime Text 3 for Linux,
they don't work. Instead, one has to use alt+shift and the appropriate arrow ...
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Can you have a desktop environment without a display manager?
The display manager takes care of automatically starting the display server ( X11 ), and then prompts you to log in instead of starting your desktop environment as the user the display manager is ...
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Any volume control applet for openbox?
Another option is the "volumeicon" package. It is a sytemtray icon, it is quite simple it does what must be done.
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How can I change user from command line
I am not interested in actually changing my user, I just want to login again. I do this to fix a problem with the mouse cursor.
If you want to login again, open tty with CtrlAltF2, login there, and ...
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What is a rock solid and lightweight file manager to use with ubuntu 16.04 and Awesome WM?
I don't like two-pane window managers or any window managers that have the word commander in their name. All the other file managers at File Managers - awesome are either too heavy or else look ugly ...
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Allow windows to overlap the panel on top or bottom
Some time ago, I found a solution that I want to share. This uses wmctrl, a program available for Debian/Ubuntu which can interact with any EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager. I have success with ...
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How to lock screen in Openbox with KDE5 screen locker
Executing /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/kscreenlocker_greet works.
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Openbox disable Alt+F4
With credit to here, you can disable the Alt+F4 combination in Openbox by editing .config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml with code similar to:
<keybind key="A-F4">
<action name="If">
<title&...
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Lubuntu 19.10 & 20.04: How to tile windows? The window tiling section is missing in lxqt-rc.xml
DK Bose's answer is great.
In general, only two steps are involved:
Disable the "Super_L" entry in your Global Actions Manager(GAM).
Add entry in Openbox lxqt-rc.xml config.
Disable ...
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How to switch keyboard layout in Openbox using keyboard shortcuts?
Openbox looks for user defined configs at ~/.config/openbox. If nothing was there, then it looks for default config files at : /etc/xdg/openbox/.
Create a new user then make a copy of default config ...
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Tiling windows horizontally and vertically under Lubuntu (LXDE/Openbox)?
Lubuntu LXDE already has simpler bindings with the Superkey+the desired arrow key
See below and just try it before modifying the rc.xml unless you need to change the keys.
<keybind key="W-Left&...
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Trouble getting Conky to Display Japanese Characters on Xubuntu
I had similar problem, finally I solved it by forcing conkyrc enconding to UTF-8 and by pointing to the correct font supporting Japanese.
Check if your config file is encoded with UTF-8:
file -bi ~/....
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How do I move my top panel?
For Ubuntu 20.04 desktop version, you can go to Settings -> Display and in the
Primary Display field, pick the particular monitor you want to be the primary and the top bar will move to that screen....
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Ubuntu with Openbox: desktop switching not working
It turns out that it had nothing to do with the system itself. It was a problem caused by VMWare hotkey. By default VMWare uses Ctrl+Alt as hot key, which conflicts with Ctrl+Alt+arrow in Openbox. ...
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Bind all keystrokes to an application
Disable Unity shortcuts
Install ccsm
sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager
Go to Desktop category → Ubuntu Unity plugin → Switcher tab
Click on each shortcut, uncheck Enable, then OK
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