Openbox Install - Common Utility

   
   
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Overview

Goal: Common utility for most window manager.

A must have knowledge, for people who just jump to WM land. Example in Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Gentoo.

scrot

$ scrot -sbcd5

scrot -sbcd5

This is a utility to get a acreenshot. If you have an error and asking for help in a group, please give a screenshot or error messages to that group. We are not sidekick, we don’t know what happened in your notebook.

feh

$ feh --bg-scale /usr/share/backgrounds/gnome/Mirror.jpg

nitrogen

$ nitrogen /usr/share/backgrounds/

nitrogen /usr/share/backgrounds/

To get your dekstop back to your last wallpapaer choice

$ nitrogen --restore

Debian

In Debian/Ubuntu based, installing is as easy as.

$ sudo apt install scrot feh nitrogen

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Debian: apt install scrot feh nitrogen

Fedora

$ sudo dnf install scrot feh nitrogen

Fedora: dnf install scrot feh nitrogen

openSUSE

$ sudo zypper install scrot feh nitrogen

openSUSE: zypper install scrot feh nitrogen

Gentoo

Gentoo portage means patience. But installing these two is fast.

$ sudo emerge --ask scrot feh nitrogen

Gentoo: emerge --ask scrot feh nitrogen

What’s Next

Consider continue reading [ Install: oblogout ].