http://david.chalkskeletons.com/files/pics/lxde_amb.png

http://david.chalkskeletons.com/files/themes/Ambiance_ob_test.obt

http://github.com/mulberry/zeniplayer

It still looks lame:

http://david.chalkskeletons.com/files/pics/zeniplayer2.png

I think I spent far more time on the icons than the script.

Screenshot (sort of)

Tarball

It’s an openbox version of the Elementary theme

screenshot

file

I’m not really that in love with either of the themes, and i’m not sure how well they have really work within the openbox theme system, but it’s nice to have stuff that matches, right?

file

screenshot

File here

Screenshot here

It’s far from perfect, I’d appreciate any thoughts?

I don’t have much going on except a mess of scripts and some themes but let’s begin.

The new artwork has surfaced for ubuntu, this is pretty old news. I thought I’d try and make an openbox version so, y’know, the kids don’t have to miss out? Before we get to pretty pictures, let’s start with misery:

1. It’s obviously not a pixel for pixel port, it’s an openbox theme that will go with the gtk/icon/background etc.
2. There will be no rounding (see point one)
3. The buttons really are not the same, no.
4. This is really just a first attempt.

Look at openbox radiance here

I’ll get together a tarball when I have finished the bits off, as well as the ambiance theme.

I have a few tidying up things I’d like to do with some other artwork and themes this week too, we shall see if that happens…

The problem is that it does not update, I have seen some very fanciful method of updating menus, probably the sanest way is to just manually update your menu when you feel the inclination. But I have a script (it has been in my git for a while but I’ve never viewed it as that important) I run with the fedora menu that is really uncomplicated:


#!/bin/bash
# folder watching using inotifywait
COMMAND="xdg-menu > ~/.config/openbox/rootmenu_tmp.xml && mv -f ~/.config/openbox/rootmenu_tmp.xml ~/.config/openbox/rootmenu.xml"
#try and be selective?
ACTIONS='--event modify --event attrib --event close_write --event moved_to --event moved_from --event move --event create --event delete --event delete_self'
PLACES="$HOME/.local/share/applications/* /usr/share/applications/* $HOME/.config/menus/applications.menu"
while inotifywait $ACTIONS $PLACES; do
bash -c "$COMMAND"
done


It simply uses inotifywait (which is part of inotify-tools) to watch for certain actions and then run a command, it could not be less interesting.  You can obviously change the command to whatever you want to use to create your menu, if you are not liking the Fedora one. It is not perfect at all and you could probably tweak the actions and places a bit, but it is far less extravagant than some solutions I have seen, and it seems to catch most, if not all, changes to .desktop files.

That’s all.

The “use system title bar and borders” option in Chrome/Chromium now works as expected.

You can click through shaped windows, which is good news if you like docky/avant window navigator or generally any composite shaped window which might previously have been annoying.

Openbox-gnome-session works again.

There has been a lot of work on window focus, which will probably please people who had Firefox issues across desktops, or maybe some other weird behaviours.

There has been a lot of work on Xinerama type things making fancy screen setups a more pleasant experience in Openbox.

I might be going crazy but docky/gnome-do docky menus seem to be much crisper and less flickery when they first appear too.

Anyway it is all good.