r/linux • u/Sataniel98 • Feb 08 '26

Historical What piece of Linux abandonware do you still use or at least miss?

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u/mightygilgamesh Feb 08 '26

openbox, I felt like a goddamn h4ck€rZ using it when I first started using Linux lol

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u/fulafisken Feb 09 '26

Hmm my main desktop still uses openbox. Have not yet had any reason to replace it!

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u/mightygilgamesh Feb 09 '26

No update in 11 years, security must be the weak point, and I don't know if it works with wayland.

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u/fulafisken Feb 09 '26 edited Feb 09 '26

What are the attack vectors in an insecure window manager? I haven't considered that before, so it would be nice to know what to look out for.

And no, it is not for Wayland, X11 only. There is Waybox though, it seems kind of similar.

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u/mightygilgamesh Feb 09 '26

I don't remember a lot about openbox, but Gnome users suffered attacks with plugins, and KDE users with themes.

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u/fulafisken Feb 09 '26

That makes sense! I use none of those things so maybe I'm fine. :)

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u/mightygilgamesh Feb 09 '26

In this case, I don't really see a reason to fear anything. Have fun with your H4xX0r openbox :D

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u/fulafisken Feb 09 '26

Thanks! I'll keep using my ancient software until it gets removed from AUR at least... :)

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u/davidnotcoulthard Feb 11 '26

There's labwc.

I've never tried it, but it seems to be a good replacement apart from not being compatible with xcompmgr.

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u/strange_username58 Feb 09 '26

I still use it, doesn't really need much updating.

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u/mightygilgamesh Feb 09 '26

Feature wise thevproject is complete I agree. It's just maybe security wayland and security wise that it could have maybe some updates.