several possible ways to interpret question asked: 1) openbox is a gui window manager. When run from a text console, a gui window manager provides access to g

several possible ways to interpret question asked: 1) openbox is a gui window manager. When run from a text console, a gui window manager provides access to graphical environment. ( additional example: Solaris NeWS window manger[10] ) xinit[9] is one aproach a user can use to customized which window manager to start/use. tmux[1], screen[2], byobu[3], wezterm[4] provide console 'text' equivalents (aka no graphics/graphics drivers) of gui window mangers such as openbox. 2) Examples of text editors that make use of features of the gui window manager the text editor is run under: gvim, gedit, leafpad[5], overleaf[6] 3) text editor with 'run-time' presentation extension of protocols such as html : vim live server[7] 4) write one's own custom interface to use with bashed[8] ---- [0] : intro to terminal multiplexers (part 1) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0upAE692fY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0upAE692fY [1] : http://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki http://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki [2] : http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ [3] : http://www.byobu.org/ http://www.byobu.org/ [4] : http://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/ http://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/ [5] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leafpad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leafpad [6] : http://github.com/overleaf/overleaf http://github.com/overleaf/overleaf [7] : http://github.com/wolandark/vim-live-server http://github.com/wolandark/vim-live-server [8] : bashed : http://github.com/justinyaodu/bashed http://github.com/justinyaodu/bashed [9] : http://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xinit http://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xinit [10] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS