Author Topic: Matchbox WM Themes (Read 3654 times)

shrubbery · « **on:** May 26, 2004, 08:57:34 am »

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

amrein · « **Reply #1 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?

shrubbery · « **Reply #2 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

omin0us · « **Reply #3 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.

time · « **Reply #4 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.

amrein · « **Reply #5 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/

Creating themes or using themes are explained there too.

pgas · « **Reply #6 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/ .

The panel and the desktop are the ones of matchbox.

amrein · « **Reply #7 on:** May 27, 2004, 02:52:30 am »

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

shrubbery · « **Reply #8 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?

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