SoulSe Posted March 6, 2003 Report Share Posted March 6, 2003 I've just fallen in love with fluxbox. Just wondering: how do I change the theme? I downloaded some from the sourceforge page. Themes are obviously different from styles, which manipulate solid colors and gradients while a Theme will have a style file and a background image... am I right? Anyway, so I get styles but can't seem to get themes to work. I tried plonking one in ~./fluxbox/styles in the universal share directory which didn't work too well. I also want to know how to change the background without losing transparency. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SDMF Posted March 6, 2003 Report Share Posted March 6, 2003 Look in your .fluxbox/menu file, and you should see something like this: [submenu] (Styles) {Choose a style...} Under this line, make sure there is the following line [stylesdir] (~/.fluxbox/styles) That should let you set the theme from the menu. Make sure that you unpack the tarball such that the text-file with all the theme information is in the ~/.fluxbox/styles directory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted March 6, 2003 Report Share Posted March 6, 2003 you can change the background with Esetroot or bsetbg Esetroot -scale /path/to/my/image the style can be completely stand alone (no image required) or my styles: seen here http://loudas.com/~paul/ have this command in it rootCommand: Esetroot -s /usr/share/commonbox/backgrounds/ILoveFB.png Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted March 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2003 Ok Paul, after seeing your screenshots I now have more questions :D Ok, firstly: How the heck did you get aterm to look like that? And then what is that thingy on the bottom left of your screen with the date and volume and stuffies? I've been looking for an app. like that for ages... gkrellm is a bit to busy and doesn't have volume. And finally, how did you get icons on your desktop? I tried messing around with nautilus to get it draw my desktop under flux with no luck... Thanks for the help with the background... I was reading somewhere that it is better to use bsetbg than Esetroot... something to do with transparency? I dunno.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SDMF Posted March 7, 2003 Report Share Posted March 7, 2003 gkrellm has a volume plugin, search on http://freshmeat.net. And the apps that he is using are dockapps, you can find a lot of them at these two sites: http://www.bensinclair.com/dockapp/ http://web.cs.mun.ca/~gstarkes/wmaker/dockapps/ You can do different effects with aterm using the .Xresources file. Here is the aterm portion of my .Xresources file. # ************************* ATERM ************************* Aterm*background: black Aterm*foreground: cyan Aterm*scrollBar: false Aterm*transparent: true Aterm*shading: 85 Aterm*font: 9x15 man aterm and scrolls towards the bottom for more things you can do with .Xresources. Sorry, paul, I stole your thunder ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qnr Posted March 7, 2003 Report Share Posted March 7, 2003 take a look at some of these to see if they help (I don't know how they're packaged in Mdk): wmapmload wmCalClock wmclockmon wmcpuload wmessage wmix wmlongrun wmmaiload wmmemmon wmMoonClock wmpasman wmsensormon wmstock wmwave wmweather+ wmWeather Check: The DockApp Warehouse Tower's Window Maker Pages -> Dock Apps Edit: added links Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted March 7, 2003 Report Share Posted March 7, 2003 Sorry, paul, I stole your thunder ;) :P yes you did !!! :P I have a file called /usr/bin/transterm and another called su_transterm this is /usr/bin/transterm paul@trinity paul $ cat /usr/bin/transterm #!/bin/bash aterm -fade 66 -shading 50 -tr -trsb -sr -st -sl 2000 -bg black -fg white -fn -*-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -sb -name aterm -T 'Transparent aTerm' -loginShell paul@trinity paul $ this is su_transterm paul@trinity paul $ cat /usr/bin/su_transterm #!/bin/bash aterm -fade 66 -shading 50 -tr -trsb -sr -st -sl 2000 -bg black -fg white -fn -*-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -sb -name aterm -T 'Transparent aTerm' -e su - paul@trinity paul $ this way I don't have to remember that damn long command anymore :D altho SDMF has some interesting ideas, I didn't know you could do it with .Xresources actually the transparent thing you've got round the wrong way ... Esetroot is much better to use for backgrounds, Esetroot has been written much better. less memory use, etc etc etc I have 2 dockapps running wmCalClock & wmix both of them I got from *the dockapp warehouse* http://www.bensinclair.com/dockapp/ icons are done with idesk http://linuxhelp.hn.org/idesk.php there is also fbdesk http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/fbdesk/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 7, 2003 Report Share Posted March 7, 2003 I have 5 different aterm entries in the menu with 4 #commented out for fast switching between favs. I was reading somewhere that it is better to use bsetbg than Esetroot... something to do with transparency? I dunno.... One of us read it wrong or got 2 diff opinions. I read the opposite. Esetroot is better for translucency. Being part of the Enlightenment/Eterm combo, that's what it was made for. Is far better in many regards IMO. Load a low quality image with both and you'll see the diff. http://gkrellm.luon.net/ http://web.wt.net/~billw/gkrellm/Plugins.html http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/psy...krellm-plugins/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SDMF Posted March 8, 2003 Report Share Posted March 8, 2003 altho SDMF has some interesting ideas, I didn't know you could do it with .Xresources Hehe, yeah, I just looked long enough at the man pages until I found something. There is a whole section on it, very in-depth. Until I found that out I was doing like you and running it from a file. This way it's a lot easier to change the options. Here's a question for ya, paul. Where did you get that Phoenix theme? It's purdy. Edit: Found it, among others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted March 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2003 I have 5 different aterm entries in the menu with 4 #commented out for fast switching between favs.I was reading somewhere that it is better to use bsetbg than Esetroot... something to do with transparency? I dunno.... One of us read it wrong or got 2 diff opinions. I read the opposite. Esetroot is better for translucency. Being part of the Enlightenment/Eterm combo, that's what it was made for. Is far better in many regards IMO. Load a low quality image with both and you'll see the diff. Definately me who got them the wrong way around, sorry. This is the first time I've used any other window manager besides Gnome for longer then 5 clicks. Loving this! BTW: I don't suppose you an get tabs with aterm? I was using Powershell so I could have tabs but it's a silly term, I don't like it. I also saw another term based on aterm, but I couldn''t get it installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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