diff --git a/desktop/openbox/openbox.SlackBuild b/desktop/openbox/openbox.SlackBuild
index bf22c39622..c71bc05f87 100644
--- a/desktop/openbox/openbox.SlackBuild
+++ b/desktop/openbox/openbox.SlackBuild
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 # Currently maintained by Robby Workman <rw@rlworkman.net>
 
 PRGNAM=openbox
-VERSION=${VERSION:-3.5.2}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-3.6.1}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
 cd $TMP
 rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
-tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz
+tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.?z*
 cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
 find -L . \
diff --git a/desktop/openbox/openbox.info b/desktop/openbox/openbox.info
index dd63ee9c11..1c82e84e6f 100644
--- a/desktop/openbox/openbox.info
+++ b/desktop/openbox/openbox.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="openbox"
-VERSION="3.5.2"
+VERSION="3.6.1"
 HOMEPAGE="http://openbox.org/"
-DOWNLOAD="http://openbox.org/dist/openbox/openbox-3.5.2.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="93df606606053b7e8578a5c116afb8ec"
+DOWNLOAD="http://openbox.org/dist/openbox/openbox-3.6.1.tar.xz"
+MD5SUM="46bf5f1edda0eda0d9e824b585988be9"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""