control: reassign -1 lxde-metapackages 6 Thank you very much for making such suggestion, the lxde actually can be ran without openbox, yes.
Unfortunately, this exact suggestion is wrong as lxde-common is not a WM-independent package, it actually isn't a common package needed to run with any WM but is an x-session package for openbox session, it should have been named openbox-lxde-session in the first place but due to some historical reasons is named lxde-common. Actually it even would not work without openbox until user makes some changes but to make those changes user should start openbox session first. It's why the lxde-common package depends on openbox. To make it possible to use another WM with LXDE the hard dependency on lxde-common should be removed from lxde metapackage and replaced with lxde-common|x-session-manager then you can create another session file instead of /usr/share/xsessions/LXDE.desktop (which uses executables /usr/bin/openbox-lxde and /usr/bin/startlxde from lxde-common package). I mean just clone lxde-common files set, modify & rename these mentioned files and you're done for another WM. Since said hard dependency on lxde-common in regards of this report is a bug of lxde-metapackages, I reassign the report to that package. Although if you would like to reuse /etc/xdg/{lxpanel,pcmanfm}/ files and wallpapers from lxde-common package then let us know, please, it is still possible to split said package to create an openbox-lxde-session with all openbox/lxsession related files in it and leave independent files alone.