My encounter with LabWC was rather accidental. It was on a beautiful day when i got fed up with RiverWM. It is a good and perfectly stable piece of software, though it offers very little customization, to the point that it’s just not fun to use. I was on Alpine Linux at that time, so I consulted the wiki for some cool software to make my desktop experience a bit more interesting. It was not so long after when I came across the page for Desktop environments and Window managers, and one window manager that I had never heard of it’s name before caught my eye.

Openbox was one of my favorite window managers I had ever used. From it’s design, you can tell that it is an unique one: it has a titlebar for it’s windows, uses XML for configuration, has a complete theme system. And to rule them all, its development is complete, stable, and looks like a DE. As a person who was new to the *NIX ricing scene, this seemed to be a nice alternative for all of the famous tiling window managers that was (and has been) popping around in the Linux community back then.

As you can notice, Openbox literally has nothing