Info about Oroborus |
Oroborus basically is a really minimalistic window manager, which is about 75kb small on a PowerPC machine and about 63kb on an x86 machine. "Minimalistic" means that the Oroborus window manager doesn't provide some things other window managers provide. So you will need some external tools also provided by this project.
The main improvement with this is that you gain much flexibility. Besides being small Oroborus has some features most other windows managers don't provide: - good default key bindings
- windows are moveable by keyboard
- highly configurable
- xpm-themable
- GNOME compatible
- NET_WM compatible
- sort of KDE compatible
- and many, many more...
We suggest to use the following add-on tools we provide together with Oroborus: - KeyLaunch
KeyLaunch is a small utility for binding commands to a hot key. It reads a configuration file in ~/.keylaunchrc. KeyLaunch uses Ctrl, Alt and Shift as modifier keys, the hotkey is up to the user. - DeskMenu
DeskMenu is a root menu program which is activated by clicking the root window. It is configured from a .deskmenurc file in your home directory. DeskMenu is useful for window managers which do not provide a menu such as Oroborus. - DeskLaunch (well, we prefer GNOME)
DeskLaunch is a small utility for creating desktop icons using pixmaps. A simple click will launch the desired application.
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| | News | | 2010-02-15
New releases
| Released some new versions of all tools, to fix some bugs and fix Debian Policy compliance. See the changelogs for details.
| | dreamind
| | 2005-07-01
New Themes
| | | dreamind
| | 2005-06-30
Still alive.
| Well - here is a new Oroborus release. Only a minor update though.
| | dreamind
| | 2005-06-30
Arch
| Oroborus and its friends now moved to an arch repository. See Download for details, on how to use this.
| | dreamind
| | 2003-07-20
IRC
| The irc channel has now officially moved to the OFTC network. irc.oftc.net is the new server address.
| | dreamind
| | 2003-06-11
Renaming
| I finally decided to rename some of the Oroborus related things. This is intended to show the difference between the old C versions and the new C++ versions. More about this, when its ready.
| | dreamind
| | 2003-06-06
Orobrus 2.1
| Finally after such a long time, the new release is finally being worked on. But the first release of 2.1 will still take some time and it will perhaps not be that stable.
| | dreamind
| | 2003-06-02
Oroborus 2.0.13
| This new release fixes some fullscreen problems with Mozilla/Galeon and some other applications needing fullscreen mode. It also introduces a new keybinding for enabling fullscreen mode (Strg-Alt-Shift-f).
| | dreamind
| | 2003-05-05
Website outage
| Due to a server relocation of the webserver there will be outages today and the following four days. At the end of the week the relocation should be finished.
| | mhelas
| | 2003-02-24
Mplayer & GNOME
| Fixed a small bug with Mplayer fullscreen mode and a mouse warping bug with GNOME panels, which are dockable by many applications. (These fixes are in the CVS tree.)
| | dreamind
| | 2003-02-24
Changed the CSS
| Changed some options at the stylesheet. Maybe we will implement some "theme"-things at oroborus.org? ;)
| | mhelas
| | 2003-02-24
CVS / Imprint
| Added a link to the savannah CVS site and an imprint.
| | dreamind
| | 2003-02-23
Relaunch 2nd.
| The backend of the homepage has been completely rewritten, with perl and its mighty tools.
| | dreamind
| | 2003-02-23
Homepage Relaunch
| The structure of the homepage has been completly reviewed. Also the page has got a newer, more propper design.
| | mhelas
| | 2003-02-20
Oroborus 2.0.12
| Oroborus 2.0.12 is out and fixes several GNOME 2 related issues. It also has the ability to register at your session manager, for example gnome-session.
| | dreamind
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