new to openbox

genisis300 · 2008-08-29 11:28:32

Hi All,
I'm trying openbox again and so far i really like it, the Openbox topic in Artwork was a good source of insperation,
i do have a couple of questions

could i make my own versions of desklet type things to sit on the background? using python? without the need for gdesklets etc? just a stand alone script?
is there a good GUI text editor, I don't mind using nano vi etc but i've not worked out copy and paste in these yet.

i've checked the openbox wiki which was very helpfull but a limited number of apps that they sugest,

Thanks
Matthew

smakked · 2008-08-29 11:31:15

For text editing i use Mousepad , or you can use geany.
As for writing a app like a screenlet , i spose you could depending on how good your programming skills are.

genisis300 · 2008-08-29 11:32:52

Also just out of intereste what is the music player in the bottom right of this picture,
http://c.imagehost.org/view/0463/2008-0 … _scrot.png

Last edited by genisis300 (2008-08-29 11:33:57)

smakked · 2008-08-29 11:37:14

Not sure but it looks like conky using mpd ?

Im an00b and still learning.

genisis300 · 2008-08-29 11:39:12

i did think that but it has a playlist etc

hk2717 · 2008-08-29 11:40:46

It is moc.

atomkarinca · 2008-08-29 11:41:34

genisis300 wrote:

i did think that but it has a playlist etc

I think that's cplay.

genisis300 · 2008-08-29 12:20:10

Yup it's moc, Looks pretty good,

Blice · 2008-08-29 14:28:29

genisis300 wrote:

Also just out of intereste what is the music player in the bottom right of this picture,
http://c.imagehost.org/view/0463/2008-0 … _scrot.png

Also the task bar he's using is tint, up in the top right. I'm pretty sure, anyways.

http://cgi.alrig.ht/ss/src/121918326029.png

You can see that task bar here, looks like the same shape, right?

Where did you get that screenshot, btw? I really love his conky, wondering if he has the config for it :]

genisis300 · 2008-08-29 21:00:49

its in the screenshot / Artwork section under openbox themes

muunleit · 2008-08-30 19:32:13

You found one of my screenshots

In the lower right is moc (music on console) inside a urxvt (Terminal) with transparent background.
In the lower left is mcabber (console jabber-client) inside a urxvt, too.
The panel is tint as Blice said.

I found my conky-rc inside another old thread. Here they are: conky-time-rc, conky-res-rc, conky-sys-rc, conky-net-rc
started with conky -c config-file (in the .xinitrc)

Geany is a nice, fast program to use in Openbox.
As programs in Openbox I use (additional to that said before) xarchiver, bashburn, gpicview, epdfview, pcmanfm, opera and some others.
If you like some Eye-Candy, xcompmgr and wbar are nice.
=> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 30#p411430
If you want a full functional, lightweight, easy DE with Openbox, try LXDE.

Actually I switched to compiz-fusion after about a half year with openbox
(just to try something else without leaving Arch )

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