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#1 2011-03-01 20:37:11
- mycorunner
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What controls the look of windows in Openbox?
I have openbox installed as a standalone WM on my fledgling Arch system. What is it that controls that themes/look/icons of applications, besides openbox? I.e. what determines that the "help" option in the chromium menu has a lifering icon?
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#2 2011-03-01 21:54:29
- ataraxia
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Re: What controls the look of windows in Openbox?
The frames and titlebars are configured by Openbox's theme - install and use "obconf" to tweak this.
The contents of windows are either set by the apps themselves, or are controlled by their toolkits. Try "lxappearance" for Gtk apps, and "qtconfig" (which comes with QT) for QT apps. No Gtk themes are actually installed by default, so you might install something like "gtk-engines" to get a decent default set.
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#3 2011-03-02 05:12:06
- mycorunner
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Re: What controls the look of windows in Openbox?
Alright, so GTK and Qt are what generally control the content of the windows. Do most apps use Gtk? I associated GTK and Qt with Gnome and KDE, so I thought that openbox wouldn't have them. GTK isn't as large a package as most of the gnome dependencies is it?
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#4 2011-03-02 05:15:21
- Inxsible
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Re: What controls the look of windows in Openbox?
nope but a simple pacman -S gtk would have told you that.
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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#5 2011-03-02 05:48:11
- mycorunner
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Re: What controls the look of windows in Openbox?
I guess my question isn't really specific enough. I thought that GTK was part of Gnome. The more I read the more it seems that a full desktop environment would be best for me, as I'll be adding most of the functionality (panels, icons, themes, etc) back in manually if I use openbox.
Thanks for answering my questions!
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#6 2011-03-02 05:54:27
- vincekd
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Re: What controls the look of windows in Openbox?
The advantage of using a standalone wm is that you can pick and choose which panels, icons, themes, etc to use. gtk is just a toolkit for graphics design.
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