x11-wm/openbox 3.6_15 MidnightBSD

Small, fast, standards compliant, extensible window manager

System: MidnightBSD
Repository: mports
Maintainer: [email protected]
Last update: 2026-09-06
Commit: a05b377b53
License: gpl2
Categories: x11-wm

Description

Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support.

Openbox lets you bring the latest applications outside of a full desktop environment. Most modern applications have been written with GNOME and KDE in mind. With support for the latest freedesktop.org standards, as well as careful adherence to previous standards, Openbox provides an environment where applications work the way they were designed to.

Openbox is a highly configurable window manager. It allows you to change almost every aspect of how you interact with your desktop and invent completely new ways to use and control it. It can be like a video game for controlling windows. But Openbox can also be kept extremely simple, as it is in the default setup, meaning that it can suit just about anybody. Openbox gives you control without making you do everything.

Openbox makes desktop environments better. By running Openbox inside the GNOME or K desktop environments, you can combine their ease and functionality with the power of Openbox. Your desktop becomes cleaner and faster, and is in your control, when you use Openbox.

This port also includes optional 3rd party patches for rounder corners support and miscellaneous fixes from https://github.com/dylanaraps/openbox-patched.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 3.6.1, as upstream numbers it.

System

Port

Version

Vulnerabilities

Status

Maintainer

Last update

MidnightBSD

x11-wm/openbox

3.6_15

no data

[email protected]

2026-09-06

FreeBSD

x11-wm/openbox

3.6_14

none known

[email protected]

2026-08-09

OpenBSD

x11/openbox by name

3.6.1p18 newest

no data

Benoit Lecocq <[email protected]>

NetBSD

wm/openbox by name

3.6.1nb43 newest

none known

[email protected]

2026-09-29

DragonFly

x11-wm/openbox

3.6_13

none known

[email protected]

HardenedBSD

x11-wm/openbox

3.6_14

no data

[email protected]

GhostBSD

x11-wm/openbox

3.6_14

no data

[email protected]

Compare across BSDs

Install

Binary package:

mport install openbox

From mports:

cd /usr/mports/x11-wm/openbox && make install clean

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	openbox>0:x11-wm/openbox
LIB_DEPENDS=	libobrender.so:x11-wm/openbox

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

graph LR
  me["x11-wm/openbox"]
  u0["x11-wm/obconf"] --> me
  me --> d0["print/freetype2"]
  me --> d1["x11-fonts/fontconfig"]
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Library 2

libfontconfig.so : x11-fonts/fontconfig
libfreetype.so : print/freetype2

Build dependencies 2

Run dependencies 2

Required by 1

x11-wm/obconf

Configuration

Options name: x11-wm_openbox

Option

Default

Description

IMLIB

NLS

off

NOTIFY

PATCHES

off

Enable 3rd party patches (such as rounded corners)

SVG

USES: gmake gnome libtool pathfix python:run pkgconfig shebangfix xorg
Service scripts: none

Files

Manual pages 5

obxprop(1)
openbox(1)
openbox-gnome-session(1)
openbox-kde-session(1)
openbox-session(1)

pkg-plist 195

include/openbox/%%VERSION%%/obrender/color.h
include/openbox/%%VERSION%%/obrender/font.h
include/openbox/%%VERSION%%/obrender/geom.h
include/openbox/%%VERSION%%/obrender/gradient.h
include/openbox/%%VERSION%%/obrender/image.h
include/openbox/%%VERSION%%/obrender/instance.h
include/openbox/%%VERSION%%/obrender/mask.h
include/openbox/%%VERSION%%/obrender/render.h
include/openbox/%%VERSION%%/obrender/theme.h
include/openbox/%%VERSION%%/obrender/version.h
include/openbox/%%VERSION%%/obt/display.h
include/openbox/%%VERSION%%/obt/keyboard.h
include/openbox/%%VERSION%%/obt/link.h
include/openbox/%%VERSION%%/obt/paths.h
include/openbox/%%VERSION%%/obt/prop.h
include/openbox/%%VERSION%%/obt/signal.h
include/openbox/%%VERSION%%/obt/util.h
include/openbox/%%VERSION%%/obt/version.h
include/openbox/%%VERSION%%/obt/xml.h
include/openbox/%%VERSION%%/obt/xqueue.h
bin/gdm-control
bin/gnome-panel-control
bin/obxprop
bin/openbox
bin/openbox-gnome-session
bin/openbox-kde-session
bin/openbox-session
@sample etc/openbox/autostart.sample
@sample etc/openbox/environment.sample
@sample etc/openbox/menu.xml.sample
@sample etc/openbox/rc.xml.sample
lib/libobrender.a
lib/libobrender.so
lib/libobrender.so.29
lib/libobrender.so.29.0.2
lib/libobt.a
lib/libobt.so
lib/libobt.so.2
lib/libobt.so.2.0.2
libdata/pkgconfig/obrender-3.5.pc
libdata/pkgconfig/obt-3.5.pc
libexec/openbox-autostart
libexec/openbox-xdg-autostart
share/applications/openbox.desktop
share/gnome-session/sessions/openbox-gnome-fallback.session
share/gnome-session/sessions/openbox-gnome.session
share/gnome/wm-properties/openbox.desktop
share/man/man1/obxprop.1.gz
share/man/man1/openbox-gnome-session.1.gz
share/man/man1/openbox-kde-session.1.gz
share/man/man1/openbox-session.1.gz
share/man/man1/openbox.1.gz
share/pixmaps/openbox.png
share/themes/Artwiz-boxed/openbox-3/themerc
share/themes/Bear2/openbox-3/close.xbm
share/themes/Bear2/openbox-3/close_pressed.xbm
share/themes/Bear2/openbox-3/desk.xbm
share/themes/Bear2/openbox-3/desk_toggled.xbm
share/themes/Bear2/openbox-3/iconify.xbm
share/themes/Bear2/openbox-3/iconify_pressed.xbm
share/themes/Bear2/openbox-3/max.xbm
share/themes/Bear2/openbox-3/max_pressed.xbm
share/themes/Bear2/openbox-3/max_toggled.xbm
share/themes/Bear2/openbox-3/shade.xbm
share/themes/Bear2/openbox-3/shade_pressed.xbm
share/themes/Bear2/openbox-3/themerc
share/themes/Clearlooks-3.4/openbox-3/themerc
share/themes/Clearlooks-Olive/openbox-3/themerc
share/themes/Clearlooks/openbox-3/themerc
share/themes/Mikachu/openbox-3/bullet.xbm
share/themes/Mikachu/openbox-3/close.xbm
share/themes/Mikachu/openbox-3/desk.xbm
share/themes/Mikachu/openbox-3/iconify.xbm
share/themes/Mikachu/openbox-3/max.xbm
share/themes/Mikachu/openbox-3/themerc
share/themes/Natura/openbox-3/close.xbm
share/themes/Natura/openbox-3/close_hover.xbm
share/themes/Natura/openbox-3/desk.xbm
share/themes/Natura/openbox-3/desk_hover.xbm
share/themes/Natura/openbox-3/desk_toggled.xbm
share/themes/Natura/openbox-3/iconify.xbm
share/themes/Natura/openbox-3/iconify_hover.xbm
share/themes/Natura/openbox-3/max.xbm
share/themes/Natura/openbox-3/max_hover.xbm
share/themes/Natura/openbox-3/max_toggled.xbm
share/themes/Natura/openbox-3/shade.xbm
share/themes/Natura/openbox-3/shade_hover.xbm
share/themes/Natura/openbox-3/themerc
share/themes/Onyx-Citrus/openbox-3/themerc
share/themes/Onyx/openbox-3/themerc
share/themes/Orang/openbox-3/themerc
share/themes/Syscrash/openbox-3/max.xbm
share/themes/Syscrash/openbox-3/max_disabled.xbm
share/themes/Syscrash/openbox-3/max_pressed.xbm
share/themes/Syscrash/openbox-3/max_toggled.xbm
share/themes/Syscrash/openbox-3/themerc
share/xsessions/openbox-gnome.desktop
share/xsessions/openbox-kde.desktop
share/xsessions/openbox.desktop
share/doc/openbox/AUTHORS

The first 100 are listed.

distinfo 1

File

Size

SHA256

openbox-3.6.tar.gz

963207

866c0ab8cb1cd15c7ae8022179cb6132a4c0f0476673bd3b834a1ef67a593ba8

Master sites 1

http://openbox.org/dist/openbox/

Commit history 1

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-09-06

a05b377b53

Lucas Holt

*: bump PORTREVISION for the textproc/libxml2 2.15 shared library change (#848)

`textproc/libxml2` 2.15 changed SONAME from `libxml2.so.2` to `libxml2.so.16` **and** removed ELF symbol versioning entirely — the new library defines no `LIBXML2_*` versions at all. Consumers built against the old library were never rebuilt, so they still record a dependency on `libxml2.so.2` plus version requirements nothing can satisfy, and fail at load time: ``` ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so.2: version LIBXML2_2.4.30 required by /usr/local/lib/libevdocument3.so.4 not defined ``` ### Scope `Tools/scripts/bump_revision.pl -f -l textproc/libxml2` — **436 Makefiles**: 323 revisions incremented, 113 gained a `PORTREVISION` line. The diff touches nothing but `PORTREVISION` lines (verified: `git diff -U0` shows no other changed line), and spot-checked ports still …