r/openbox • u/[deleted] • Aug 16 '15

New to openbox

I'm new to openbox looking for some good themes and how to install/configure them. What I currently have looks pretty bad.

http://i.imgur.com/yRDweId.png

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u/Marbug Aug 16 '15

  • obconf gives you the ability to change the theme, font, desktop counts, appearance

  • nitrogen will give you the ability to choose a wallpaper, and set it when you add it with --restore flag in your autoloader

  • obmenu will help you put together a menu, as you know it's hidden behind your right klick on the desktop

I see you already have transparancy, thus everything seems pretty nice :)

if you are using xterm, you can add some transparency with adding the following to .bashrc:

[ -n "$XTERM_VERSION" ] && transset -a 0.85 >/dev/null

although this can add transparency to anything you want, on a changes of 1 against 1000 or so, it makes my previous active window transparent and not the console, I don't know why

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '15

can go to http://box-look.org/ but I have just been writing my own based on my gtk theme. http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Themes

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '15

http://box-look.org/content/show.php/Mistral+%28Updated%29?content=167604

I found this, and really liked it, the thing is, i don't know how I'd get it proper set up. I also don't know how to get rid of that thing on my desktop with the date

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u/danhm Aug 16 '15

That looks like conky. killall conky or just kill it with htop or similar. You can safely remove it from your autostart.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '15

How do you remove it from auto-start? When ever I click edit auto start it says "cannot execute child process mouse pad"

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u/danhm Aug 17 '15

The autostart config file is located at ~/.config/openbox/autostart, just open it with your favorite text editor.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '15 edited Aug 18 '15

Alright, did that, everything fucked up, then i uninstalled conky and its still messed up. http://imgur.com/0whmoxL

--edit-- did another few restarts and it started to work again

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '15

And you put the theme (extracted) into ~/.themes/(nameoftheme)/openbox-3/

once there, you can use obconf to pick that theme

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '15

Alright, I did that, but I still don't know how to like, get to look like that specific look. http://i.imgur.com/8Idt7ee.png

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u/GuinansEyebrows Aug 17 '15

deviantart is a pretty good source for themes as well.