Pdaxrom Environment
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Work in progress, please refer to the page of the corresponding application if you want to play with the different options.
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Window Manager
The default window manager is openbox. The window manager is responsible for drawing the windows and most shortcut keys are handled by openbox.
Important: The background image, the fonts and the size of the icons on the panel and on the desktop are NOT modified whatever you change in the openbox configuration.
see Configuring Openbox for more information.
The Desktop and the Panel
The default desktop and panel used comes from Matchbox
Important the Matchbox project provides a window manager which is NOT used in pdaXrom.
The menu font can be changed by opening /usr/bin/mb-applet-menu-launcher in SciTE. This file is a binary so you'll see a lot of gibberish. Use the "Find" function of SciTE (Control F) and search for "Verdana". There you'll see Verdana-14. You can change the font size of the font type.
Make sure you backup the file before you make any changes.
Replacing the Matchbox desktop with Rox (This applies to RC9, but steps for older versions are similar.)
You can replace the default Matchbox desktop with Rox to get more of a "desktop" feel as seen here. Using the pinboard feature of Rox allows you to "pin" applications, directories, and files to the desktop. To switch to the Rox desktop, install Rox from the PdaXrom RC9 feed. Next, edit the file /home/root/.xinitrc on your Zaurus and change the following lines (starting line 60 of the file):
eval "matchbox-desktop $MBBGND" 2>/dev/null >/dev/null &
eval "matchbox-panel --no-flip $MBORIENT" 2>/dev/null >/dev/null
To this:
#eval "matchbox-desktop $MBBGND" 2>/dev/null >/dev/null &
eval "rox --pinboard=MYPINBOARD" &
eval "matchbox-panel --no-flip $MBORIENT" 2>/dev/null >/dev/null
Then exit and restart X. You should now be greeted with with a "clean" desktop with a home folder. Browse your filesystem using Rox and drag any files, directories, or applications to your desktop to "pin" them there. Right click on the desktop to set your background and change the options for Rox. You can also change any of the icons used by right clicking on the icon and choosing "set icon". Most of your icons are stored in /usr/share/pixmaps.
ThemeDepot.org has themes for Rox in their "icons" section. Un-tar these into your /home/root/.icons directory and use the "Types" setting in the Rox options.
