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sudo urpmi openbox xcompmgr tint2 parcellite nitrogen openbox-menu lxmenu-data
That should be enough to get you going.
Then I made a directory for the config files
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mkdir -p ~/.config/openbox
That is my playground where I can FUBAR whatever I want - and then start again by simply copying the original config files back.
So time to copy over the original config files then:
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cp /etc/xdg/openbox/{rc.xml,menu.xml,autostart,environment} ~/.config/openbox
That's it!
you should now have Openbox. So we log out and check if this is an option.....
So we log in and find a rather spartan looking grey desktop. One right-click gives us the menu and from there we can adjust Openbox further...
You will find a discussion on Openbox here but that is not distro specific - like this description will be.
Then we fire nitrogen up from the konsole and under preferences we add /usr/share/wallpapers
Pick a wallpaper.
Now you must edit the autostart file to make your changes stick
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nano .config/openbox/autostart
It should look like this (you can copy and paste from here):
This file will autostart anything you like - so if you want the konsole started when you log in you would simply add konsole & at the bottom of the file.
Pick reconfigure openbox from the right-click menu (under System) log out and back in and your desktop will look like this:
Notice that little star on the top left corner? Click it to autorun anything. (Edit: bbrun will freeze your system - so go for gmrun instead)
To configure your panel you could run tint2conf here.
Very impressive howto, as usual. I have a question:
Good catch! As usual you are right - sudo is not needed at all. 
I have corrected the code above.
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But we have kiba-dock in the repos so I installed that and put
