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Hrod beraht

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Registered: 2008-09-30

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Openbox default background color not black?!?

Since openbox doesn't handle desktop backgrounds, shouldn't the default desktop background be black?
Well for some odd reason mine isn't. It's gray (GIMP calls it HTML color #303030).

As you can see from the screenshot, I do have some colors tweaked for the terminal in .Xdefaults, but they're not affecting the background. I've checked just about everything else I can think of and no joy. Shouldn't the background be black? You can see that it isn't when compared to the black of the terminal.

It's not an X issue either, as X by itself is as black as night. Only when I start Openbox does it go gray. And other programs such as the terminal show black just fine, so it isn't a monitor issue either.

Fortunately it's a nice gray, so it's nice to look at, but it's bugging me that I can't figure out why it isn't black. Any ideas?

Bob

P.S. I'm not running feh or nitrogen or anything that's changing the desktop. GTK theme is Industrial, Openbox them is Neo, but changing either or both of them doesn't change the background.

haxit

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Registered: 2008-03-04

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Re: Openbox default background color not black?!?

That is the default.

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Hrod beraht

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Registered: 2008-09-30

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Re: Openbox default background color not black?!?

Yep, I just happened upon another post showing that was the default color in the autostart.sh file.

$BG -solid "#303030"

Yippee, mystery solved!

Bob

bslagowski

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Registered: 2008-02-23

Posts: 102

Re: Openbox default background color not black?!?

cat .config/openbox/autostart.sh

# Set a background color
#BG=""
#if which hsetroot >/dev/null; then
#    BG=hsetroot
#else
#    if which esetroot >/dev/null; then
#        BG=esetroot
#    else
#        if which xsetroot >/dev/null; then
#            BG=xsetroot
#        fi
#    fi
#fi
#test -z $BG || $BG -solid "#303030"

bslagowski

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Registered: 2008-02-23

Posts: 102

Re: Openbox default background color not black?!?

14 seconds late, hehe.

Konstantin Morevich

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Registered: 2013-04-17

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Re: Openbox default background color not black?!?

In Ubuntu 12.10 with OpenBox 3.5.0 the autostart script which sets the background color to #303030 is /usr/local/libexec/openbox-autostart

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: Openbox default background color not black?!?

Konstantin, please don't necrobump old threads:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27

Closing

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