My minimal theme

Sy Ali sy1234 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 17 08:22:27 EDT 2008


For anyone looking at a flat, simple, no-nonsense theme, I've
continued one which I mutated from back in my blackbox days from its
'minimal' example theme.  Most recently inspired by Bear2.  =)

Steel blue and grey, flat, thin borders.  Good for oldschool computers.

Updates will go here:
http://jrandomhacker.info/Minimal_openbox_style


This is one file, located here
 /usr/share/themes/minimal/openbox-3/themerc
Then select it using obconf




# I combine editing this file, with an entry in my
~/.config/openbox/rc.xml with:
#    <keybind key="A-F5">
#      <action name="Reconfigure"/>
#    </keybind>
# Now I can goof around and press alt-f5 to see things live.

# Window geometry
padding.width: 2
padding.height: 2
border.width: 1
window.client.padding.width: 1
window.client.padding.height: 0

# Window title justification
window.label.text.justify: Center

# Active window
window.active.label.text.font: shadow=n

window.active.border.color: Black
# If I leave this blank, it won't paint the unnecessary double-border
window.active.client.color:

window.active.title.bg: Flat
window.active.title.bg.color: SteelBlue
window.active.label.bg: Parentrelative
window.active.label.text.color: White

# This is the 'footer' of every window.  A width of 0 turns it off.
window.handle.width: 1
window.active.handle.bg: Flat
window.active.handle.bg.color: Steelblue
window.active.grip.bg: Flat
window.active.grip.bg.color: Steelblue

window.active.button.unpressed.bg: Flat
window.active.button.unpressed.bg.color: SteelBlue
window.active.button.unpressed.bg.border.color: SteelBlue
window.active.button.unpressed.image.color: White

# Interestingly, this "sticks" when I click the maximize button.  Neat.
window.active.button.pressed.bg: Flat
window.active.button.pressed.bg.color: #537797
window.active.button.pressed.bg.border.color: #3d4c5a
window.active.button.pressed.image.color: White

window.active.button.disabled.bg: Flat
window.active.button.disabled.bg.color: #537797
window.active.button.disabled.bg.border.color: #3d4c5a
window.active.button.disabled.image.color: #3d4c5a

window.active.button.hover.bg: Flat
window.active.button.hover.bg.color: #6993b9
window.active.button.hover.bg.border.color: #3d4c5a
window.active.button.hover.image.color: White

window.active.button.toggled.unpressed.bg: Flat
window.active.button.toggled.unpressed.bg.color: #6993b9
window.active.button.toggled.unpressed.bg.border.color: #3d4c5a
window.active.button.toggled.unpressed.image.color: #cccccc

window.active.button.toggled.pressed.bg: Flat
window.active.button.toggled.pressed.bg.color: #537797
window.active.button.toggled.pressed.bg.border.color: #3d4c5a
window.active.button.toggled.pressed.image.color: White

window.active.button.toggled.hover.bg: Flat
window.active.button.toggled.hover.bg.color: #6993b9
window.active.button.toggled.hover.bg.border.color: #3d4c5a
window.active.button.toggled.hover.image.color: White



# Inactive windows
window.inactive.label.text.font: shadow=n

window.inactive.border.color: Black
window.inactive.client.color: #cccccc

window.inactive.title.bg: Flat
window.inactive.title.bg.color: #f1eeea
window.inactive.label.bg: Parentrelative
window.inactive.label.text.color: #000000

window.inactive.handle.bg: Flat
window.inactive.handle.bg.color: #f1eeea
window.inactive.grip.bg: Flat
window.inactive.grip.bg.color: #f1eeea

window.inactive.button.unpressed.bg: Flat
window.inactive.button.unpressed.bg.color: #efebe7
window.inactive.button.unpressed.bg.border.color: #8f8173
window.inactive.button.unpressed.image.color: #000000

window.inactive.button.pressed.bg: Flat
window.inactive.button.pressed.bg.color: #efebe7
window.inactive.button.pressed.bg.border.color: #8f8173
window.inactive.button.pressed.image.color: #000000

window.inactive.button.disabled.bg: Flat
window.inactive.button.disabled.bg.color: #efebe7
window.inactive.button.disabled.bg.border.color: #8f8173
window.inactive.button.disabled.image.color: #8f8173

window.inactive.button.toggled.bg: Flat
window.inactive.button.toggled.bg.color: #efebe7
window.inactive.button.toggled.bg.border.color: #8f8173
window.inactive.button.toggled.image.color: #000000

window.inactive.button.hover.bg: Flat
window.inactive.button.hover.bg.color: #efebe7
window.inactive.button.hover.bg.border.color: #8f8173
window.inactive.button.hover.image.color: #000000

window.inactive.button.toggled.unpressed.bg: Flat
window.inactive.button.toggled.unpressed.bg.color: #efebe7
window.inactive.button.toggled.unpressed.bg.border.color: #8f8173
window.inactive.button.toggled.unpressed.image.color: #000000

window.inactive.button.toggled.pressed.bg: Flat
window.inactive.button.toggled.pressed.bg.color: #efebe7
window.inactive.button.toggled.pressed.bg.border.color: #8f8173
window.inactive.button.pressed.toggled.image.color: #000000

window.inactive.button.toggled.hover.bg: Flat
window.inactive.button.toggled.hover.bg.color: #efebe7
window.inactive.button.toggled.hover.bg.border.color: #8f8173
window.inactive.button.toggled.hover.image.color: #000000

# Menus
# Right-click on the root menu (the "desktop")
# Right-click on a title bar
menu.border.width: 1
menu.border.color: White

menu.title.text.font: shadow=n
menu.title.bg: Flat
menu.title.bg.color: SteelBlue
menu.title.text.color: White
menu.title.text.justify: Left

menu.separator.color: White
menu.separator.width: 1
menu.separator.padding.width: 0
menu.separator.padding.height: 0

menu.items.font: shadow=n
menu.items.bg: Flat
menu.items.bg.color: SteelBlue
menu.items.text.color: White
menu.items.disabled.text.color: Grey

menu.items.active.bg: Flat
menu.items.active.bg.color: White
menu.items.active.text.color: Black
menu.items.active.disabled.text.color: Grey

#Menu geometry
menu.border.width: 1
menu.overlap.x: 0
menu.overlap.y: 0

# On Screen Display (with alt-tab, etc)
osd.border.width: 1



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