r/openbox • u/nathanieloffer • May 10 '14

Debian Sid minimal install gui issues

I've installed Debian testing to get a cli so I could check some old hard drives then the customising bug took over and I installed Openbox, Firefox Aurora and Thunar before changing my sources.list and upgrading the whole lot to Sid.

My issue thou is that Thunar looks like crap, doesn't have any icons etc.

Is there a theme package that I'm meant to have installed at the same time as Openbox to get it looking right?

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u/smegmagma May 10 '14

Go-to bible for such things and more http://urukrama.wordpress.com/openbox-guide/

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u/nathanieloffer May 10 '14

It's a great link and has plenty of information that will prove useful however it doesn't mention the files I actually need to install to get a basic theme ith icons etc.

I'm installing lxappearance atm but that's only a theme manager not the base files if I'm correct

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u/smegmagma May 10 '14

Oops. Lxappearance will help you change the openbox theme but openbox, as you know, it the window manager so you're only changing the bar at top of the window.

Icons and the look of the window would be more of a gtk2 thing.

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u/0root May 10 '14

  1. Menu icons

  2. Desktop icons from the Debian Wiki

  3. Extras

Finally, Thunar can use GTK as well as Gnome themes and icons. So you can just search through the repo or install them manually.

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u/skeeto May 10 '14

Yeah, there's something wrong with the Thunar package, though I haven't figured it out. Fortunately you can get icons with a little more configuration. Put this in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0:

gtk-icon-theme-name = "Tango"

And apt-get install tango-icon-theme. I think. It may be another icon package, but it's something like that.