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Darkness: A new theme for Openbox and the Murrine GTK Engine
Posted in Themes, Design, Linux on Monday, 29th January 2007
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.
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.
January 29th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Did Tate just make a post?
What the fuck?
January 29th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Zomg.
Nice work mate. GNOME is nice, but annoying me in some regards. I might move. Who knows.
January 29th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
GNOME *is* nice, but I find it does more than what I want it to do. In that regard, Openbox is a nice lightweight alternative. Thanks for the heads up, anyway
Yes Owen, I made a post!
February 2nd, 2007 at 2:01 pm
That’s pretty nice. Which player is that? I’m guessing it’s an MPD front-end.
February 2nd, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Yes, it certainly is an EMM PEE DEE front-end. It’s called “Sonata” and it’s absolutely fantastic. I was discussing MPD/Sonata with Owen, and he switched over last night from Quod Libet. You should *really* give it a shot when you get some time. In addition, it’s very light on the memory. I think MPD + Sonata is around 25MB.
April 22nd, 2007 at 10:44 pm
You’ve got spamail!
April 23rd, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Correction. I “did” have spamail!