# Openbox Distros With The Wow Factor - Manjaro and Mabox
**URL:** https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/openbox-distros-with-the-wow-factor-manjaro-and-mabox/130
**Category:** Reviews
**Created:** [August 2, 2020, 7:50am UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/openbox-distros-with-the-wow-factor-manjaro-and-mabox/130 "2020-08-02T07:50:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@napcok](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/napcok)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2020, 7:50am UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/openbox-distros-with-the-wow-factor-manjaro-and-mabox/130/1 "2020-08-02T07:50:55Z")
OldTechBloke has prepared an interesting review about Manjaro Community Openbox and Mabox 🙂
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG1aELlPE4o)
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### Author:  [@gatton](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/gatton)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2020, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/openbox-distros-with-the-wow-factor-manjaro-and-mabox/130/2 "2020-08-02T19:03:00Z")
This is the video where I learned about Mabox. I watched it yesterday and was very impressed. Openbox seems not the easiest to theme well and when I saw it was inspired by Crunchbang I knew I wanted to try it. I used Crunchbang off and on when it was an active project and liked it very much. I was running it on a very low spec Dell laptop (2gb ram max with Pentium M CPU) and even with those specs it worked great. All of this shows Crunchbang had some nice ideas and I’m glad people are keeping them alive for all of us to use and enjoy. I would say Mabox is the finest example of these ideas that I have seen.
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### Author:  [@ben\_chile](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/ben_chile)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2020, 11:53pm UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/openbox-distros-with-the-wow-factor-manjaro-and-mabox/130/3 "2020-08-08T23:53:08Z")
As a suscriber of OTB, MaboxLinux impressed me so much, and well I decided to give some of sdd corner, and so far it is running awesome in my daily laptop system… I am recommending it in our local FB fan page and forum in Chile. Thanks, guys you are doing an amazing job!
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### Author:  [@ben\_chile](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/ben_chile)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2020, 6:19pm UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/openbox-distros-with-the-wow-factor-manjaro-and-mabox/130/4 "2020-08-17T18:19:47Z")
Check this:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW52qfLIeDQ)
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### Author:  [@Doug\_Welder](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/Doug_Welder)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2020, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/openbox-distros-with-the-wow-factor-manjaro-and-mabox/130/5 "2020-09-18T20:13:29Z")
The problem with all those openboxers is monitor detection. Set arandr and reset every reboot.It’s an unneeded problem that should have been pre coded/scripted on openbox years ago.It should have auto-save upon startup for the user…yeah. I know how to add it to all the .bs configs but it’s annoying. It’ll make a new user walk and I dont blame them one bit
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### Author:  [@napcok](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/napcok)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2020, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/openbox-distros-with-the-wow-factor-manjaro-and-mabox/130/6 "2020-09-18T20:31:15Z")
Personally, I have never had a resolution problem when installed on a physical PC or laptop.
Sometimes I have to use arandr when testing in VirtualBox.
Resolution is detected by the X Server, not the window manager.
> **[Did X.server recognise your monitor correctly?](https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Did_X.server_recognise_your_monitor_correctly%3F)**
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### Author:  [@fadervar](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/fadervar)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2020, 9:57am UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/openbox-distros-with-the-wow-factor-manjaro-and-mabox/130/7 "2020-09-22T09:57:32Z")
My story is much like your’s, actually you inspired me to sign up here at this forum.
I used #! too 🙂
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### Author:  [@ben\_chile](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/ben_chile)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/openbox-distros-with-the-wow-factor-manjaro-and-mabox/130/8 "2020-09-22T16:33:58Z")
Very welcome… I am sure you will have big fun using Maxbox and sharing experiences in here.