How to load fluxbox themes

Michael D. Norwick mnorwick at centurytel.net
Fri Oct 15 23:43:23 UTC 2010


Frank Shute wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 01:17:54PM -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote:
>   
>> Good day;
>>
>> How does one load a downloaded fluxbox theme?  I have unpacked a nice 
>> vermaden authored theme into
>> .fluxbox/flux-themes but that is where I am stuck.
>>
>> fluxbox ver. 1.1.1 from ports
>>
>> What goes in the .fluxbox/styles directory?
>>
>> T.I.A.
>>
>>     
>
> [frank at orange:frank/.fluxbox]
> $ ls -F
> apps           fbrun_history  keys-dis       menu~          startup
> backgrounds/   init           keys~          overlay        styles/
> fbpager        init~          lastwallpaper  pixmaps/       windowmenu
> fbpager~       keys           menu           slitlist
> [frank at orange:frank/.fluxbox]
> $ ls -F styles
> blackwood/  blue_curve/ cherry/     skulls/
> [frank at orange:frank/.fluxbox]
> $ ls -F styles/cherry
> theme.cfg   theme.cfg~
> [frank at orange:frank/.fluxbox]
> $ ls -F backgrounds/
> cherry.png         curves.jpg         skulls.jpg         wood1280x1024.jpg
> [frank at orange:frank/.fluxbox]
> $ 
>
> The above gives you an idea if where everything belongs.
>
> theme.cfg has a line calling the background. E.g:
>
> background:                                             fullscreen
> background.pixmap:                      ~/.fluxbox/backgrounds/cherry.png
>
>
> Regards,
>
>   
Again, Thank You, for your kind response.  I was hoping for a more 
lightweight desktop environment compared to KDE4.  Yet, with reduced 
overhead comes more manual configuration.

Michael


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