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Model Specific Forums => Sharp Zaurus => Zaurus - pdaXrom => Topic started by: JedTheHead on February 02, 2005, 02:15:12 pm

Title: Pdaxrom Window Manager
Post by: JedTheHead on February 02, 2005, 02:15:12 pm

I realize that there is a Zaurus themes forum, but I wanted to ask the pdaXrom folks...

Just curious - in a recent post Laze stated that they don't use Matchbox.  What window manager is it?

And also - has anyone found a way without going to XFCE or Fluxbox to change the window control theme?  (i.e. borders, etc.)

Thanks!

Jed

Title: Pdaxrom Window Manager
Post by: Laze on February 03, 2005, 02:38:49 am

The window manager we use is the http://icculus.org/openbox/ (http://icculus.org/openbox/) - it can be customized too and have themes too.

Title: Pdaxrom Window Manager
Post by: pgas on February 03, 2005, 03:22:06 am

I added some info on how to change the openbox theme on the wiki
see Configuring_Openbox (https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=Configuring_Openbox)

Title: Pdaxrom Window Manager
Post by: Laze on February 03, 2005, 03:45:57 am

pgas thanks for all your hard work its great to see somebody support the "community" in that way - when (hopefully around the end of february) we get the new website and server up and running im hoping you will be willing to be a co-author :-)

Btw. maybe you could add that this could "destroy" some keyboard mapping of launching keys etc. - I will fix this in the next update of the inputconfig.py

Title: Pdaxrom Window Manager
Post by: JedTheHead on February 03, 2005, 08:48:16 am

Yes - thank you both.  The wiki is a great start and the openbox info is just what I was looking for!

Thanks!

Title: Pdaxrom Window Manager
Post by: dvdrw on February 03, 2005, 01:59:47 pm

FYI you can download a great set of default openbox themes (compatible with openbox in pdaxrom) from here:

http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/...s_1.0.1_all.deb (http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openbox-themes/openbox-themes_1.0.1_all.deb)

you might be able to install this using ipkg as is (I didn't try), or just use "ar x" to extract the contents, then untar data.tar.gz to just pick the theme(s) you want to use.

Title: Pdaxrom Window Manager
Post by: jerrybme on February 03, 2005, 03:30:23 pm

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I added some info on how to change the openbox theme on the wiki
see Configuring_Openbox (https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=Configuring_Openbox)
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pgas:
I echo Laze's comments, thanks for taking the initiative to write up the info I was looking for. I had gleaned much of the same info from the openbox3 website.

Now that I've had a chance to play some with the themes and tried hacking the xml files. I've come to the conclusion that the start menu's attributes are set in a binary file like mb-start-button. As no matter what I set  menu.items.font to it doesn't change the menu. I've got the window decorations like I'd like, but I would love to be able to change and increase the font of the menu.

Is there a way to edit the binary file like I do for Entrance configuration? (I forget the name of the app that I use, I think it's part of gtk -  linux box is at home)

Cheers,
Jerry

Title: Pdaxrom Window Manager
Post by: radon88 on February 04, 2005, 04:49:05 am

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pgas:
I echo Laze's comments, thanks for taking the initiative to write up the info I was looking for. I had gleaned much of the same info from the openbox3 website.

Now that I've had a chance to play some with the themes and tried hacking the xml files. I've come to the conclusion that the start menu's attributes are set in a binary file like mb-start-button. As no matter what I set  menu.items.font to it doesn't change the menu. I've got the window decorations like I'd like, but I would love to be able to change and increase the font of the menu.

Is there a way to edit the binary file like I do for Entrance configuration? (I forget the name of the app that I use, I think it's part of gtk -  linux box is at home)

Cheers,
Jerry
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Hi, I got same situation.

I suspected mb-applet-menu-launcher of  hard-coded font settings.

With gvim in Win32, I found and changed "Verdana-14"  in mb-applet-menu-launcher with  my local-language font name.

And voila!

It worked.

It's located at 0x3b90 and you can easily do in a linux box.

 

Title: Pdaxrom Window Manager
Post by: jerrybme on February 04, 2005, 11:09:23 am

radon88:
Thanks! That did the trick    

I've got bad eyes and the small font on the menu has always bugged me. I set it to Verdana-16 and now it's perfect.

I also found you can use Scite to edit the file, just open and search for Verdana.

Just make sure to backup the file first in case of mistakes.

YMMV

Now to update the Wiki with a nod to pgas

Jerry

Title: Pdaxrom Window Manager
Post by: radon88 on February 04, 2005, 08:31:10 pm

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radon88:
Thanks! That did the trick   

I've got bad eyes and the small font on the menu has always bugged me. I set it to Verdana-16 and now it's perfect.

I also found you can use Scite to edit the file, just open and search for Verdana.

Just make sure to backup the file first in case of mistakes.

YMMV

Now to update the Wiki with a nod to pgas

Jerry
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Good to hear that.

I think that font name should be changed carefully.

I didn't do the experiments but new font name's size should not exceed original one(10 chars).

i.e UnDotum-14 and Verdana-16 are ok, but LongFontName-xx is not.