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Topic: Beautiful theme!

First, thank you to Corenominal and all the others who saved me so many hours of setting all this up. Openbox on Ubuntu is just what I wanted, and most of the work has already been done!

First impression on booting up is very smooth, elegant and professional, right from the splash screen. However, although the desktop looked cool, I definitely wanted icons, and found the theme, Openbox and GTK, too dark. Installing xfdesktop got me all the files in ~/Desktop back in view, and obconf/lxappearance for lighter themes... but... somehow nothing seemed quite right, and after a week or so of messing about I tried the default #! theme again, and this time it clicked. Simple, elegant, easy on the eyes, and all apps seemed to follow along nicely, down to the contrasting white-on-black popups. For me all it needed was a little touch of colour, so switch the titlebars from "text only" to "icons only", add ADcomp's ADeskBar, use a dark wallpaper, and turn on the compositiing for a bit of drop shadow. Result: probably the nicest-looking computer I've had the pleasure of using so far! Just beautiful. smile

(I think I'll keep my desktop icons a bit longer though.)

Other suggestions? I haven't been using #! all that long, and we all have our favourite apps, so my particular preferences can be left for another time. The menu is full of handy links, but the lack of an automatically updated application list might be a weak point. marchobmenu might be a candidate for inclusion in a future #!?

Anyway, thanks again!

John
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Re: Beautiful theme!

... screenshot... ?!

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Re: Beautiful theme!

johnraff wrote:

Other suggestions? I haven't been using #! all that long, and we all have our favourite apps, so my particular preferences can be left for another time. The menu is full of handy links, but the lack of an automatically updated application list might be a weak point. marchobmenu might be a candidate for inclusion in a future #!?

ADesk Menu is also a handy solution. http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … r-systray/

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Re: Beautiful theme!

klanger wrote:

... screenshot... ?!

er.. if you insist, but it's just the default theme basically.
A couple of windows open:
http://omploader.org/tM2ltcg
Just the desktop (actually, the ADeskBar is usually hidden):
http://omploader.org/tM2ltdg
Note all the file icons splattered about. It would look much nicer without them, but I still haven't figured out a way to organise my work otherwise. ("organise"??  Real life desktop is just the same...)

Oh yes... one small request re the #! theme: the right hand edge of a window is sometimes very hard to grab to resize sideways. Another pixel in the "active zone" or whatever it's called might be nice. Of course you can always go down to the bottom right hand corner, but I'm so lazy...

Last edited by johnraff (2010-02-11 04:58:05)

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Re: Beautiful theme!

*keels over from clutter*

but I like your tint2

mind posting your tint2rc?

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Re: Beautiful theme!

Chives wrote:

*keels over from clutter*

Ah, but I'm used to it. smile
I'll try and clear it up some day.

but I like your tint2
mind posting your tint2rc?

Sure, but again, I don't think I've changed it much from the defaults.

#---------------------------------------------
# TINT2 CONFIG FILE
#---------------------------------------------
# For more information about tint2, see:
# http://code.google.com/p/tint2/wiki/Welcome
#
# For more config file examples, see:
# http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/3232/my-tint2-config/
#---------------------------------------------
# BACKGROUND AND BORDER
#---------------------------------------------
rounded = 0
border_width = 1
background_color = #FFFFFF 0
border_color = #FFFFFF 20

rounded = 0
border_width = 0
background_color = #ffffff 20
border_color = #ffffff 20

rounded = 0
border_width = 0
background_color = #ffffff 0
border_color = #ffffff 0

rounded = 0
border_width = 0
background_color = #423B34 20
border_color = #ffffff 0

rounded = 0
border_width = 0
background_color = #000000 100
border_color = #ffffff 0

#---------------------------------------------
# PANEL
#---------------------------------------------
panel_monitor = all
panel_position = bottom center
panel_size = 100% 28
panel_margin = 0 0
panel_padding = 7 0
font_shadow = 0
panel_background_id = 0

#---------------------------------------------
# TASKBAR
#---------------------------------------------
taskbar_mode = multi_desktop
taskbar_padding = 0 0 0
taskbar_background_id = 1

#---------------------------------------------
# TASKS
#---------------------------------------------
task_icon = 1
task_text = 0
task_width = 80
task_centered = 1
task_padding = 2 2
task_font = sans 8
task_font_color = #ffffff 70
task_active_font_color = #ffffff 85
task_background_id = 3
task_active_background_id = 2

#---------------------------------------------
# SYSTRAYBAR
#---------------------------------------------
systray_padding = 4 2 3
systray_background_id = 4

#---------------------------------------------
# CLOCK
#---------------------------------------------
time1_format = %H:%M
time1_font = sans 8
time2_format = %A %d %B
time2_font = sans 6
clock_font_color = #ffffff 76
clock_padding = 4 4
clock_background_id = 4
clock_lclick_command = ~/.config/gworldclock/gworldclock.sh

#---------------------------------------------
# TOOLTIP
#---------------------------------------------
tooltip = 1
#boolean (0 or 1) : enabled or disabled tooltip on task 
tooltip_padding = 2 2
#horizontal_padding vertical_padding 
tooltip_show_timeout = 0.3
#float : delay to show tooltip in second 
tooltip_hide_timeout = 0.3
#float : delay to close tooltip in second 
tooltip_background_id = 5
#integer : Which background to use (if real_transparency = 0 alpha channel and rounded are not respected) 
tooltip_font_color = #ffffff 76 
tooltip_font = sans 8

#---------------------------------------------
# BATTERY
#---------------------------------------------
#battery = 0
#battery_low_status = 7
#battery_low_cmd = notify-send "battery low"
#bat1_font = sans 8
#bat2_font = sans 6
#battery_font_color = #ffffff 76
#battery_padding = 1 0
#battery_background_id = 0


#---------------------------------------------
# MOUSE ACTION ON TASK
#---------------------------------------------
mouse_middle = close
mouse_right = none
mouse_scroll_up = toggle
mouse_scroll_down = iconify
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Re: Beautiful theme!

I know, I just like the slim look

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Re: Beautiful theme!

omns wrote:

ADesk Menu is also a handy solution. http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … r-systray/

ADeskMenu is very nice - looks beautiful and works perfectly - but I found it a bit heavy on memory; I've only got 500MB. Actually I don't really use the global apps menu all that often - everyday stuff gets a launcher or keyboard shortcut - but I want everything to be there if needed, so a lightweight "applications" submenu for the openbox menu seems just right.

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