Openbox

[calerid]

grr so many stupid computer users... understand nothing of this.... go back to osx you inbred ass monkeys

[Linuxdirk]

@calerid Even if the video is a bit lame compared to other "I show you what my desktop can do" videos, OSX can't do this :)

[calerid]

@Linuxdirk Thats my point, I have seen so many comments on this video talking about how terrible this video is because they think OSX is so great. My point is for them to go back to being stupid and using OSX

[hellozepp88]

nice man really nice

[Gt5OOkr]

is that on arch?

[Linuxdirk]

@Gt5OOkr Yep :)

[TheGreatBunghole16]

wow?

[Wafffl3]

Pretty cool video. There are so many times when not losing focus like that would have come in handy; I'll be sure to look into this :)

[LunaVorax]

Might sound stupid but what is the skin you used for your cursor ?

[Linuxdirk]

@LunaVorax @LunaVorax Why should it sound stupid. It's called "Comix Cursors". This is actually a set of a wide variety of cursors of the same style. It comes an a lot of colors and each color comes in three sizes.

As far as i know the default is medium white. I used medium light blue.

You can get it at GnomeLook or maybe via tha package manager from your distribution. ComixCursors is somewhat popular :)

[LunaVorax]

Thank you very much ! :)

[imperalboi]

compiz seems better. im not impressed. im going to view some other vids.

[LoliComplicated]

What exactly are you doing in this video..? Nothing special I take it.

[Linuxdirk]

@LoliComplicated I show how the window movement gets done in a well-configured Openbox setup.

[LoliComplicated]

But it's not well configured, things arn't moving efficiently, that's pretty out of the box stuff you're showing in that video. Sticky windows are annoying. You don't show how to over-ride Gnome management to get multiple workspaces, or any cool things about openbox like custom themeing, config writing, info display, grow to keybindings, skinning even. You don't show anything really in this video it's just you doing messy window management manually.

[iHateToRegister]

@LoliComplicated i guess that video is not about theming and stuff

[ttthttpd]

How the hell do you have the fancy cursor? I installed (from repo) and applied with gnome-appearance-properties but it would only work over gtk apps.

[Linuxdirk]

I copied the cursor theme to ~/.icons/THEMENAME and created a symlink from /usr/share/icons/default to this directory.

It's kinda dirty, but it works. The correct way would be, creating or editing ~/.Xdefaults with ... Xcursor.default: THEMENAME

... for X itself, and creating or editing ~/.gtkrc.mine with ... gtk-cursor-theme-name="THEMENA­ME"

... for GTK applications.

You should check if .gtkrc.mine and .Xdefaults get parsed at X startup.

[ttthttpd]

Thanks for the advice, I tried to follow it but it didn't work. Tried a couple of different things, even searched for error reports (the cursor was ALWAYS default on root window). I finally just changed it with gnome-appearance-properties and logged off and on again, and it worked!

Seems like the first solution to anything computer wise is to turn it off and on again don't it?

I'll upload a video of my OB desktop in a week or so. I have some cool apps but not as many tweaks.

[nitr0ix]

sexy )))

[DemonSoul89]

wow u have compiz rofl nothing new in openbox

[Linuxdirk]

No, i can't use a window manager (Compiz) while using another window manager (Openbox).

It's pure Openbox. THe config file is in the description.