[openbox] how to get rounded borders around windows

Mikael Magnusson mikachu at gmail.com
Sun Oct 9 11:33:38 EDT 2011


On 9 October 2011 17:28, Dana Jansens <dana at orodu.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Globe Trotter <itsme_410 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> > That's the point of the box look style window managers (Fluxbox,
>> > Openbox, Blackbox, etc) is their style the box look. Rounded corners are out
>> > by design.
>>
>> --
>> Thanks very much! Is this completely true? The first Fluxbox screenshot
>> at:
>>
>> http://www.fluxbox.org/screenshots/screenshots_full/screenshot_bobbens.png
>>
>> has this feature. So also does (for PekWM, which to be fair to you, you do
>> not mention, but in the same class of WMs perhaps) here:
>>
>> http://box-look.org/content/show.php/Azel-Smooth?content=78581
>>
>> Do these give up something by way of leaner resources that OB does not? I
>> thought they were all fairly comparable, but maybe I am wrong.
>
> It has nothing to do with resources, just that no one has written code to do
> it.

And also that rounded corners without antialiasing makes baby jesus
cry. And antialiasing needs compositing, which takes resources :).

-- 
Mikael Magnusson


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