Re: Great experience with debootstrap
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On 05/05/09 09:39, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Harry Rickards:
>> On 4 May 2009, at 22:12, Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:
>>> You are probably looking for something like xsetroot. I have no idea
>>> how openbox handles background images.
> -- snip
>> 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)?
>
> No, please don't attach binary files. It may work but it won't win you
> friends.
>
> For Firefox, you can of course install themes for Firefox. But you are
> probably searching for Gtk themes. There are plenty available in Debian,
> just 'apt-cache search gtk theme'. How to chenge them depends on your
> environment. If you don't have any Gnome services running it's probably
> best to create a custom ~/.gtkrc-2.0. Some examples can be found on the
> net, I cannot reach mine right now. An incomplete list of what can be
> set can be found here:
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/GtkSettings.html#GtkSettings.properties
>
> J.
Thanks for the help. Using your instructions and the help on the Ubuntu
Wiki (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Openbox#GTK%20themes) (I know
it's Ubuntu, but it gave package names which were the same for Debian),
I've successfully made the ugly grey a nicer grey, using the Industrial
theme. Basically I installed gtk-theme-switch and gtk2-engines* (with
apt-get it gets all the GTK themes), and ran gtk-theme-switch2. This GUI
allowed me to find the theme that looked the nicest, and generated a
~/.gtkrc-2.0 for me. However, it also setup an Xclient script, which
caused my cursor to change to the default X.org X cross shape, and
change my background to the background of my login screen. Using the
auto generated .gtkrc-2.0, I created my own which simply contained:
hrickards@sid:~$ cat .gtkrc-2.0-custom
#Include GTK theme Industrial
include "/usr/share/themes/Industrial/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
#For more startup stuff see /etc/xdg/openbox
. I then used gdmsetup to run an OpenBox session instead of the
auto-generated Xclient script, and told it the location of my custom
GtkRC file.
I also setup feh (using 'feh --bg-scale
/home/hrickards/etc/debian.png'), which created a ~/.fehbg file containing:
hrickards@sid:~$ cat .fehbg
feh --bg-scale '/home/hrickards/etc/debian.png'
In OpenBox's autostart.sh script, I linked to this file, using the
following line (which I got from the Debian wiki,
http://wiki.debian.org/Openbox#Settingyourbackgroundimagewithfeh):
hrickards@sid:~$ cat /etc/xdg/openbox/autostart.sh | grep fehbg
eval `cat $HOME/.fehbg` &
That made my whole autostart.sh http://pastebin.com/d3a191086.
Thanks for the help and pointers.
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Many thanks
Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst)
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