Planet Openbox Launches!

I’ve been invited by some friends involved with the Openbox community to participate in a new “planet” project (a la Planets Ubuntu, Gentoo, or Gnome) called Planet Openbox in the name of our favorite window manager.

Why do I still use and love openbox? Because its XML-based configuration file affords me pretty amazing flexibility in my keyboard & mouse bindings. My favorites include the ability to roll the mouse wheel on the desktop to cycle virtual desktops or on a title bar to shade/unshade. I also use openbox to bind the forward/back thumby buttons on my Logitech MX518 to move me around my history in Firefox quickly.