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Darkness: A new theme for Openbox and the Murrine GTK Engine

In late December of 2006 I switched from GNOME to Openbox, a lightweight and extensible Window Manager (WM). I wasn’t satisfied with many of the existing themes for Openbox, and created my own. I’ve been using it for about one month now, and I feel it’s time to share it with the rest of the world.

A picture of the Darkness theme

You’ll need to grab two theme files, one is for Openbox and the other for GTK. In addition, you’ll also require the Murrine-GTK-Engine. If you’re using Arch Linux, a package is already available in the community repository under “gtk-engines-murrine”. Other distribution users should look here for more information.

Darkness for Openbox
MurrinaDarkness for GTK2

If you’re seeking a greyish GTK theme for the GNOME/Xfce desktop, also consider MurrinaDarkness.

You may also consider browsing my Openbox configuration files such as menu.xml and rc.xml, which you can locate here.


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