Need help with fluxbox themes...

Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: Need help with fluxbox themes...
started by: tonko

Posted by tonko on Feb. 17 2006,08:57

Hi everyone.
I've got my DSL HD installed and running beautifully.
Then, I've downloaded some nice fluxbox themes from freshmeat.net, but after having tried every technique taught by "DSL Wiki" I still can't get them installed. Could anyone help me here? Also is there anyway to deal with transparency on DSL?
Thanks a million in advance.
Tonko.

Posted by mikshaw on Feb. 17 2006,14:59

The DSL wiki probably speaks only of fluxbox themes available from the myDSL repository (which seems to be missing a link, by the way). Those that you get from freshmeat have a different directory structure and will not install properly using myDSL.

What you get from freshmeat is simply a tar.gz or tar.bz2 file, usually containing the directories "styles" and "backgrounds". If this is the case, extract the archive into /home/dsl/.fluxbox/
If what you have is just files with no directories, put any images in /home/dsl/.fluxbox/backgrounds, and the style file in /home/dsl/.fluxbox/styles.
If you have a "new" type of style, which includes theme.cfg and a pixmaps directory, you won't be able to use it in fluxbox stable.

Transparency of toolbar, menu, etc., is also not available n fluxbox stable. You'd need fluxbox development version for that.

Posted by tonko on Feb. 17 2006,17:10

Thanks mikshaw!
Knowing that DSL's stable version of Fluxbox is this limited certainly helps.
But then again, here am I trying to install my new Fluxbox-0.9.14 "dev" version...
Since no other technique helps me with this, I've used the old "tar xzvf" for it but, so far nothing. The only thing I get is another directory in my /.
Anyway, I'll be researching around the net.
Any help there?

Posted by mikshaw on Feb. 17 2006,19:18

There is a fluxbox_0.9.14.uci myDSL extension in the "testing" section of the myDSL repository, and fluxbox-0.9.11.tar.gz in the "wm_apps" section. Note: 0.9.11 uses its own configuration directory, and 0.9.14 uses the standard .fluxbox directory.

When installing myDSL extensions, use "mydsl-load filename" as user dsl rather than "tar xzvf". If you got fluxbox from fluxbox.org you'll have trouble with it in DSL, since it is a source package.

Posted by RoGuE_StreaK on Feb. 18 2006,00:03

Mikshaw, do the "new" styles work "out of the box" with the uci? I'm using the uci version on my frugal install, but all I've done with it is add a couple of bits of transparency to my theme. Might be cool to check out some themes that exploit more of the "cool" features...

Posted by mikshaw on Feb. 18 2006,01:53

I have no idea, to be honest. I haven't used any pixmap themes, and never even thought to check.

I guess there shouldn't be any problem with it, though...it was compiled with pixmap support.

Posted by tonko on Feb. 18 2006,05:34

Thanks again mikshaw.
I had already tried DSL's own ways of dealing with install before doing my "tar xzvf", but the results were similar...
Anyway, I don't have fluxbox UCI version here in myDSL repository, but I have the 0.9.11 one.
I'll give it a try.
Cheers.