[openbox] theme questions

dams dams at dams-interactive.com
Thu Jan 19 11:31:12 EST 2006


Dave Foster a écrit :

> Manuel Colmenero wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:24:49 -0600
>> LostSon <LostSon at new.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> I have been messing with openbox themes and trying to figure some
>>> things out. Is it possible to use pixmaps in the titlebars and such,
>>> like in fluxbox?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Nope. You can use pixmaps for the buttons' icons (close, iconify,
>> etc), but not for the titlebars.
>>  
>>
> It should also be said that the pixmaps are actually .xbm files, or
> bitmaps - they only support being on or off.  Openbox uses it as a
> mask to draw the button glyphs, and the theme can specify how the on
> pixels and the off pixels are rendered.
>
>>  
>>
>>> And are there any
>>> good how to's on openbox themeing, thanks.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Openbox theming is not very well documented yet. Hopefully we'll have
>> some documentation on the matter soon, in the meantime you can try
>> modifing the existing themes.
>>
>>  
>>
> Gamma's themes (http://gamma.pnosker.com) are decently sectioned, but
> the best one's I've seen for picking stuff up is Cerement's site
> (http://www.absinthe182.com).  Grab some themes from there and poke
> around in theme to get used to the options available.
>
> -- 
> dave
> http://www.minuslab.net
>
>
>
Those ones are great too :
http://freshmeat.net/browse/1087/
Specially the last one, the Dams5 theme, really nice... :)

To help you, you can use the fluxbox theme help page, wich works as the
same for textures directives :
http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docbook/en/fluxbox-docs.html#CHAP-THEMES
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