Openbox

Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support. is actively maintained on Gentoo and you can install is as usual using:

Configuration
There are four files to consider when configuring openbox.
 * autostart
 * environment
 * menu.xml
 * rc.xml

Openbox installs these files to /etc/xdg/openbox/. If you want to override them, create your own in ~/.config/openbox/.

autostart
The autostart file is the ideal way to execute specific commands and programs when Openbox starts. It makes no difference if you start Openbox using startx or any display manager. Here is an example

environment
This is the ideal place to export global variables and configure your openbox environment as appropriate

rc.xml
TODO

Icons in openbox menu
Since version 3.5.0 you can have icons next to your menu entries. For this:

1) You must emerge openbox with imlib support. Add USE flag "imlib" for x11-wm/openbox into you /etc/portage/package.use like this: "x11-wm/openbox imlib" and run "#emerge x11-wm/openbox"

2) Add yes in the section of the rc.xml file

3) Add in menu.xml icon=" " like this: 			 xterm