To build Openbox from CVS you need: A C++ Compiler (GNU GCC/G++ 3.2+ suggested) GNU Gettext 0.11.5 GNU Autoconf 2.50+ GNU Automake GNU Libtool Xft2 library/headers (devel package) (http://www.fontconfig.org) Xlib library/headers (devel package) Python library/headers (devel package) (http://www.python.org) Optional: SWIG 1.3.17+ (http://www.swig.org) *** If you don't want to get swig, thats fine, unless you're going to be *** editing stuff. *** Without SWIG, before you build CVS _every time you update_ you need to: *** *** % touch src/openbox.i *** % touch src/openbox_wrap.cc *** *** This is because of how CVS deals with timestamps. I recommend the latest version of all these packages. Do the following to build and install Openbox in CVS: % ./bootstrap % ./configure % make all install Don't try building it and running it from the src/ directory, it won't work. It needs to be installed. The installed binary is 'openbox3'.