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mf

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Re: Share your Openbox Desktop ! :)

I want your colors. All of them.

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zezic

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Registered: 2011-09-27

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Re: Share your Openbox Desktop ! :)

^Nice one! Can you please share your GTK theme and your wallpaper, if possible?

I want your colors. All of them.

GTK2/3
Openbox
Firefox
Sublime Text UI
Sublime Text colors is Twilight from default color schemes set.
~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc
~/.config/tint2/tint2rc

Wallpaper

ashleylharnett

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Re: Share your Openbox Desktop ! :)

Just re-styled my openbox desktop, thought I'd share - although it is a simple one:

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Conky config {here} inspired by okubax's post.

Trayer for the notification/systray icons.

orschiro

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Re: Share your Openbox Desktop ! :)

After a very long time of using Gnome and Cinnamon, and after personal disagreement with the development of the former, I was looking for simplistic alternatives. I think with Openbox I have found such an alternative. There is no magic happening but the result of changes to text config files!

Still some minor issues but overall I am very happy with my desktop now.

Last edited by orschiro (2013-11-20 07:46:17)

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nTia89

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Registered: 2008-12-22

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Re: Share your Openbox Desktop ! :)

After a very long time of using Gnome and Cinnamon, and after personal disagreement with the development of the former, I was looking for simplistic alternatives. I think with Openbox I have found such an alternative. There is no magic happening but the result of changes to text config files!

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

Still some minor issues but overall I am very happy with my desktop now.

can you share your configs (specially top bar)?

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orschiro

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Re: Share your Openbox Desktop ! :)

@nTia89

Sure:

https://github.com/orschiro/dotfiles/bl … y/.conkyrc

It is still not perfect though. I need to investigate how to insert an if statement in case some variables do not contain any output. Currently they leave empty spaces in the infobar.

Last edited by orschiro (2013-11-20 22:42:51)

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mf

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Re: Share your Openbox Desktop ! :)

Here's mine. Mono style. Thanks zezic, this is based on your configs

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Lala0KjOA

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Re: Share your Openbox Desktop ! :)

I love flat themes. :d

mf

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Re: Share your Openbox Desktop ! :)

I've made several improvements today, incl a better Conky.

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nTia89

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Re: Share your Openbox Desktop ! :)

@nTia89

Sure:

https://github.com/orschiro/dotfiles/bl … y/.conkyrc

It is still not perfect though. I need to investigate how to insert an if statement in case some variables do not contain any output. Currently they leave empty spaces in the infobar.

I thought it was a tint2 or similar task bar, so is it only a list of open apps?

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+ultrabook: Dell | XPS 13 (9343) | 8GB ram | 256GB ssd | FullHD display | Windows 8.1 64bit ArchLinux x86_64 w/ Gnome

orschiro

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Re: Share your Openbox Desktop ! :)

@nTia89

Yes, but only a limited amount of apps. Currently Zotero, Thunderbird and Dropbox. The reason being, I run these apps in tray mode (Dropbox) or on other Desktops (Zotero and Thunderbird). Furthermore, I run them depending on my battery state. This conky bar helps me finding out whether the apps are actually running or not (sometimes my powersaving script fails and does not launch all apps successfully). I do not want to click on them or open them and thus a proper task bar is not necessary for me.

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kelloco2

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Re: Share your Openbox Desktop ! :)

I've made several improvements today, incl a better Conky.

http://t.imgbox.com/acwqttkA.jpg

wow beautiful. Can You share .conkyrc?

Regards

nTia89

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Re: Share your Openbox Desktop ! :)

@nTia89

Yes, but only a limited amount of apps. Currently Zotero, Thunderbird and Dropbox. The reason being, I run these apps in tray mode (Dropbox) or on other Desktops (Zotero and Thunderbird). Furthermore, I run them depending on my battery state. This conky bar helps me finding out whether the apps are actually running or not (sometimes my powersaving script fails and does not launch all apps successfully). I do not want to click on them or open them and thus a proper task bar is not necessary for me.

so to switch app do you use only alt-tab?

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+laptop: Apple | MacBook (2,1) | 2GB ram | Mac OS X 10.4 -> DIED
+ultrabook: Dell | XPS 13 (9343) | 8GB ram | 256GB ssd | FullHD display | Windows 8.1 64bit ArchLinux x86_64 w/ Gnome

orschiro

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Re: Share your Openbox Desktop ! :)

@nTia89

Exactly, I just use alt-tab which is sufficient for me and is faster than using the mouse to click on the task bar entries.

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gjm

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From: Warsaw

Registered: 2012-02-14

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Re: Share your Openbox Desktop ! :)

Openbox + tint2 + urxvt

Last edited by gjm (2013-11-24 10:27:15)

codedwrench

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Registered: 2013-11-24

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Re: Share your Openbox Desktop ! :)

Tint2 & xfce4-terminal on a ubuntu-minimal installation
Details about the theme are on the screenshot

Last edited by codedwrench (2013-11-24 13:12:08)

Unia

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Re: Share your Openbox Desktop ! :)

^ What is the font in your window border?

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codedwrench

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Registered: 2013-11-24

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Re: Share your Openbox Desktop ! :)

^ What is the font....

Its just Sans bold and size 8

nTia89

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Re: Share your Openbox Desktop ! :)

http://i.imgur.com/MChUa9D.png

Openbox + tint2 + urxvt

how did you got windows without borders and title?

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+laptop: Apple | MacBook (2,1) | 2GB ram | Mac OS X 10.4 -> DIED
+ultrabook: Dell | XPS 13 (9343) | 8GB ram | 256GB ssd | FullHD display | Windows 8.1 64bit ArchLinux x86_64 w/ Gnome

SanskritFritz

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Re: Share your Openbox Desktop ! :)

how did you got windows without borders and title?

You can undecorate any window with Obapps. Or put this into rc.xml:

    <application class="rdesktop" name="rdesktop" type="normal">
      <decor>no</decor>
    </application>

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orschiro

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Re: Share your Openbox Desktop ! :)

@gjm

Which font are you using in the terminal?

Is the terminal urxvt? If so, can you share your .Xresources?

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nTia89

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Re: Share your Openbox Desktop ! :)

how did you got windows without borders and title?

You can undecorate any window with Obapps. Or put this into rc.xml:

    <application class="rdesktop" name="rdesktop" type="normal">
      <decor>no</decor>
    </application>

thank you

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+pc: custom | AMD Opteron 175 | nForce4 Ultra | 2GB ram DDR400 | nVidia 9800GT 1GB | ArchLinux x86_64 w/ openbox
+laptop: Apple | MacBook (2,1) | 2GB ram | Mac OS X 10.4 -> DIED
+ultrabook: Dell | XPS 13 (9343) | 8GB ram | 256GB ssd | FullHD display | Windows 8.1 64bit ArchLinux x86_64 w/ Gnome

na12

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Registered: 2008-12-23

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Re: Share your Openbox Desktop ! :)

Lxpanel,AWN and Conky.

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Lala0KjOA

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Re: Share your Openbox Desktop ! :)

Nice!

BishopBlade

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Re: Share your Openbox Desktop ! :)

Openbox theme: Turquoise Nights II http://box-look.org/content/show.php/?content=120386
GTK2/3 theme: BleuFear http://m4xm4n.deviantart.com/art/BleuFe … -271798366

Running apps: Conky, tint2, thunar, terminator, sublime text 2, nm-applet, slimebattery, xcompmgr
Tint2 config: http://pastebin.com/0cgSy4Ch   (generated with tintwizard like a noob)
Autostart: http://pastebin.com/2q8aaD9V
Menu: http://pastebin.com/wdySeW4g
conky config: http://pastebin.com/EVRGHgRP (got it off the internet from somewhere but can't remember link)

Last edited by BishopBlade (2013-11-28 20:05:12)