[openbox] How to get a thick border around focused window?

Frank McCormick beacon at videotron.ca
Tue Oct 6 09:18:22 EDT 2009


 <chombee at ...> writes:

> 
> How can I get openbox to draw a thick, coloured border around the
> currently focused window? Right now if my windows are undecorated then
> there's no visual indication of which has focus. With some themes even if
> they're decorated  there isn't. I'm guessing this is a theme thing not a
> config thing? Recommend a theme? I keep most windows undecorated and just
> want a coloured border to identify the focused one, in the style of dwm
> and other window managers that don't draw traditional window title bars
> with buttons etc.


  Go into your theme folder and open up themerc in a text editor. Have 
a look at :
http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Help:Themes#border.width


Frank



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