[openbox] how to get rounded borders around windows

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On Sun, 9 Oct 2011 11:23:22 -0500
Myra Nelson <myra.nelson at hughes.net> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 10:33, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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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> 
> >> > 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:
> 
> My apologies for not listing them all the list has the possiblity for being
> too long. That is why I used etc. However the main point of my argument
> seems to have been missed. How many boxes do you see with round corners?
> Most boxes I've ever seen have square corners, hence the name box look. One
> uses a box look WM because of it's looks and simplicity. I can't speak for
> others but I don't use a computer for looks, beauty, and ambience. I use it
> as a tool and like other tools, form follows function IMO. Open box is
> extremely useful and functional without the bells and whistles. I laud the
> developers for the KISS principle and hope they keep it up.
> 
> Myra

Absolutely agree with this. I might add that my home has a number of pictures
on the walls, all of which have the simplest frames :)

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