Openbox Theme Editor (Page 1 of 2)

It can interest me... I was a little affraid to do it in a text editor directly

I don't know how to install pygtk. It is not in package manager, and with the source file from the site I don't succeed in doing the configuration:

the error message:
checking for headers required to compile python extensions... not found
configure: error: could not find Python headers

I know I should indicate where python is but I don't know, there are many "python" files
./configure --prefix=<prefix where python is installed>

What about the python-fuse?  Not finding anything similar in the ubuntu repos and the few things I find on the net aren't necessarily clear they are the same animal.

That is really odd as I had attempted to install python-fuse and even searched via synaptic...anyways the cache search worked and I installed.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/tony/bin/obtheme", line 3208, in <module>
    obt = ObTheme()
  File "/home/tony/bin/obtheme", line 2297, in __init__
    self.openbox_config_path = os.getenv('XDG_CONFIG_HOME')+'/openbox/rc.xml'
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'NoneType' and 'str'

Last edited by kBang (2009-05-29 18:04:45)

I knew it had something to do with that line but I had no idea what to change, I was about to edit it to  '~/.config/openbox/rc.xml'

Thanks iggy.

I don't think you need to run a make command. The FAQ on the site indicates that you just run obtheme.. so you would use "./obtheme" and it should run.

No, I am still  trying to install pygtk (./configure for the moment ).

the new error is:

I see that it try to help me but I don't know what to do.

Yes but I didn't change the line 2297

It seems working now. I will make a test and see what appens.

Thanks iggykoopa

Hello iggykoopa,

I really think you miss something .. if you replace XDG_CONFIG_HOME by HOME , os.getenv('HOME')+'/openbox/rc.xml'  looks after ~/openbox/rc.xml  ..
As rc.xml is in ~/.config/openbox , you have to change with this :

self.openbox_config_path = os.getenv('HOME')+'/.config/openbox/rc.xml'

Bye ...

your right adcomp...didn't even notice that the rest of the path was wrong, thanks for pointing it out.

I was wondering if anyone was having the same problems I was having with this little application. When I try to same a theme I get this error:

File "/usr/bin/obtheme", line 2211, in save_theme
    for item in os.listdir(self.preview_themerc_dir):
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '/home/iteria/.themes/obtheme/openbox-3'

I opened up the python file and had a look at the problem, but it's just baffling.  This is the line it breaks on:

for item in os.listdir(self.preview_themerc_dir):

self.preview_themerc_dir has the correct value from what I can tell and in the correct format (but I could be wrong, python isn't a language I know.), however it's giving a invalid argument error. Again I don't know much about python, but os.listdir() would have returned nothing (because there were no subdirectories), so no "item"s would be formed. Maybe python doesn't like that?

Last edited by iteria (2009-07-16 02:45:17)