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Model Specific Forums => Sharp Zaurus => Zaurus - pdaXrom => Topic started by: shrubbery on May 26, 2004, 08:57:34 am

Title: Matchbox WM Themes
Post by: shrubbery on May 26, 2004, 08:57:34 am

Is there any way in which you can change the matchbox default window manager theme?

Title: Matchbox WM Themes
Post by: amrein on May 26, 2004, 09:55:43 am

You mean create one, add a new one or run an application to change the theme dynamically?

Title: Matchbox WM Themes
Post by: shrubbery on May 26, 2004, 11:06:29 am

I don\'t particularily want to create one - I would just like to change the window border to something a little more aethetically pleasing (as with xfce4). If this means a little bit of hacking then fair enough although an automated process would be preferable

Title: Matchbox WM Themes
Post by: omin0us on May 26, 2004, 02:13:52 pm

ok, i think i know what you are meaning, you don\'t want matchbox themes, you want OpenBox themes. Google it a bit and see if you can find something on it, i would assume it would be close to how Fluxbox does themes.

Title: Matchbox WM Themes
Post by: time on May 26, 2004, 02:27:07 pm

You can download theme IPKs from the pdaXrom feed.
If you download one and open it up, you will see the structure of the package.
It is nothing more than a series of png icons stored in /usr/share.

Title: Matchbox WM Themes
Post by: amrein on May 26, 2004, 02:50:56 pm

shrubbery, if you want to know all things about Matchbox, here is the web site:

  http://matchbox.handhelds.org/ (http://matchbox.handhelds.org/)

Creating themes or using themes are explained there too.

Title: Matchbox WM Themes
Post by: pgas on May 27, 2004, 01:42:42 am

Note that as hinted by omin0us the default wm used by the pdaxrom is openbox and not matchbox-wm
so for windows borders and titles  you\'d better go to

http://icculus.org/openbox/ (http://icculus.org/openbox/) .

The panel and the desktop  are the ones of matchbox.

Title: Matchbox WM Themes
Post by: amrein on May 27, 2004, 02:52:30 am

http://icculus.org/openbox/obconf/ (http://icculus.org/openbox/obconf/) if you want to play with the pdaXrom cross-compiler

Title: Matchbox WM Themes
Post by: shrubbery on May 27, 2004, 06:11:36 am

Right... I\'ve changed the default openbox theme and downloaded some more and tried them too. Much better - thanks for all of the advice.

One thing that I was thinking though - I use openbox for my window manager and ROX for my desktop - why do I need matchbox (as I believe that ROX also comes with a panel , or I could just use something like fbpanel). Would it be possible to get rid of mathbox and would this make any tangable difference to the speed of my C860? or am I barking up completely the wrong tree?