Changing the window border size

Eraph · 2016-03-02 01:12:18

damo wrote:

In a terminal, look at the manpages for concise descriptions
man openbox
man compton
Openbox manages windows, placement, snapping etc; compton (the compositor BL uses) deals with transparency and effects basically.
(Aside: maybe we should put `man openbox` in the menu as well)

I appreciate your help here, I don't recall even seeing the name 'Compton' before (I'm away from my lappy now so can't check). This is good advice anyway, but I'm just trying to help you understand that for people who haven't used this kind of environment before, sometimes we're looking around trying to figure out what it is we're trying to do and it's just a bit

damo · 2016-03-02 01:19:34

^ Yeah, we all started out from where you are now...keep on truckin'

johnraff · 2016-03-02 03:28:00

damo wrote:

(Aside: maybe we should put `man openbox` in the menu as well)

There's nothing particularly useful there though. The website is far more helpful IMO.

vasa1 · 2016-03-02 04:08:30

DivingPhoenix wrote:

... and I searched the forums, and the web, as I said ... we are at an impasse. Sorry, I tried, failed, and resorted to here. Thanks for the info.

If you searched for openbox border width, the first few hits should have sorted out the issue.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-03-02 07:39:15

Just to note that windows can be resized from anywhere with <Alt>+right-click & drag.

Eraph · 2016-03-02 07:44:45

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Just to note that windows can be resized from anywhere with <Alt>+right-click & drag.

Some folks say I'm easily pleased, but...

THAT'S AMAZING.

pvsage · 2016-03-02 10:20:34

^ This to resize and <Alt>+left-click & drag to move are both crowd pleasers.

johnraff wrote:

damo wrote:
(Aside: maybe we should put `man openbox` in the menu as well)
There's nothing particularly useful there though. The website is far more helpful IMO.

Even more helpful to me is a well-documented theme.rc or rc.xml, once a user knows to look for these files. They often document things you won't find on the openbox website.

PackRat · 2016-03-02 15:10:00

Openbox Theme

damo · 2016-03-02 15:21:00

pvsage wrote:

...
Even more helpful to me is a well-documented theme.rc or rc.xml, once a user knows to look for these files. They often document things you won't find on the openbox website.

In the case of OB themerc files, do they need much internal explanation? The lines are pretty explanatory themselves - it would be hard to add comments to this example snippet...

window.handle.width: 0
window.client.padding.width: 0
window.client.padding.height: 0
border.width: 1
padding.width: 2
window.active.border.color: #7F7F7F
window.inactive.border.color: #788390
menu.border.color: #788390
menu.overlap: 2
window.frameColor: #7F7F7F
window.*.client.color: #7F7F7F
*.text.justify: center

OTOH, might the BL themerc's be improved with a help link in the header comments?

!! For help on Openbox theme configuration: http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Themes

once a user knows to look for these files

...and that was the problem with the OP, who didn't realise he was dealing with a window manager setting.

Last edited by damo (2016-03-02 15:25:22)

pvsage · 2016-03-02 16:36:10

OP does have a point though (although this would be a bug against Openbox or OBConf, not BunsenLabs): Having an option to override a themerc's border.width from OBConf (suppose, for example, someone with low vision and/or hand tremors really needs 10px borders or larger on whatever theme he switched to) that is saved to the Openbox rc.xml falls into the "would be really nice" category. I think something along the lines of a checkbox and spinbutton for "Override Openbox theme's border width" would fit well on the Move & Resize tab, since moving and resizing is what a lot of us use the borders for.

DivingPhoenix · 2016-03-03 00:24:15

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Just to note that windows can be resized from anywhere with <Alt>+right-click & drag.

Ooo! Awesome -- thanks!

damo · 2016-03-03 00:46:55

DivingPhoenix wrote:

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:
Just to note that windows can be resized from anywhere with <Alt>+right-click & drag.
Ooo! Awesome -- thanks!

...and drag them with <Alt>+L-click & drag

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