Thanks Fred.fredx181 wrote:@ rufwoof, looks nice your openbox setup!
I did try using just xorg with openbox on top for a while, quite nice, but minimised notifications were out of sight so I added tint2 so that there is a visible panel/notification bar.
Tint2 has some nice qualities. For instance I'm now running two, the main panel and another as a desktop switcher (top centre) that's transparent and when you hover you see the (and can click to switch to that) program. For a lightweight it packs a powerful punch ... highly configurable. I did have a quick look at openbox pipe menus, where for instance a menu choice when hovered over pops out a function such as a current local weather overview or mail ... or whatever. But haven't got very far with that as of yet.
New to me is that rather than using / union in persistence.conf you can specify particular files/folders only to be persistent. filesystem.squashfs and the persistence space (partition in my case) need to reflect each-other, but for instance I have just /home in persistence.conf now so only changes under /home are preserved (browser bookmarks, calendar, configuration ....etc), everything else isn't (freshly rebooted). Alongside that I also have a boot as though full install - grub4dos menu.lst chains to grub menu.lst (all changes preserved ... good for applying updates/kernel upgrades); And a pure read-only frugal (filesystem.squashfs only) boot choice ... which is good for testing things out and losing/un-doing all the changes upon shutdown/reboot. With my more common boot choice being the save changes in /home only.
I've set the MENU key (like the WIN/Special key, but on the other side of the spacebar) to pop up the openbox menu, or the usual right click of desktop also brings it up. I've just added a menu button (bottom left) to also launch it so it looks more like a 'standard' desktop. I've yet to rearrange all of the menu content (using obmenu) to my liking, but getting there and its looking nice and running really well.
Its different to my prior debian (I rebuilt this from a command line jessie standard livecd filesystem.squashfs) as kodi plays sound on all desktops and all terminals. For instance if I ctrl-alt-F3 and login to a new session I can still hear all of the sounds playing across all of the desktops (which is my preferred choice). With Jessie LXDE switching to another console/terminal session resulted in the sound being contained only to the single session that it was running in (ctrl-alt-f3 and the sound was no longer heard unless you ctrl-alt-f7 or whatever back to the original session where the sound was being played). I don't know why there's a difference, perhaps something that LXDE installs makes pulseaudio perform differently. Nonetheless, I'm happy