Re: Great experience with debootstrap

[Harry Rickards <hrickards@l33tmyst.com>]

On 4 May 2009, at 22:12, Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:

> Harry Rickards:
> > I just thought I'd tell everyone about the great experience I've had
> > recently with debootstrap.
>
> Congratulations! I used deboostrap once to install Debian on a remote
> machine via SSH using only the swap partition as the initial root
> filesystem. Installing Debian has become too easy, you have to *look*
> for thrills nowadays. :)
>
> > The one thing I have noticed is that no matter what theme I change
> > openbox to, the background of a window (the bit that is blank, or  
> > is a
> > menu) always stays an ugly shade of grey. Is there a way to somehow
> > change this to the nicer colour used in Ubuntu (and I think also a  
> > GNOME
> > or XFCE install of Debian)? I know in Ubuntu this was provided by the
> > ubuntu-artwork package. Thanks.
>
> You are probably looking for something like xsetroot. I have no idea  
> how
> openbox handles background images.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try it later (I don't currenly have  
access to my PC) but from the man page it looks as though it changes  
the root window, and Wikipedia seems to suggest that the root window  
is the Desktop.

Sorry for not making it clearer, but I want to change the colour of  
the background of a program (a parent window I think). For example in  
Firefox (or Iceweasel) I want to change the colour of the grey  
surrounding the menubar and buttons, below the titlebar. I'll attatch  
a screenshot later (does the list support them)?

Thanks for all your help
Harry Rickards