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blietaer
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 7:47 am    Post subject: OpenBox not consistent Reply with quote

Hello,

I do really enjoy leaving the big and greasy huge KDE/Gnome environment.
OpenBox is really easy to configure and do the job, and just the job I asked for.

However, two things could be improved, and I would request your help here:

a.) I just won't have consitency in themes/window/colors: of course I added both Qt/KDE and GTK/Gnome in my USE, but I just can't have two windows that even look similar in their aspect..it is a bit of a hugly stack of different glued pieces of (different) puzzle together.
Is that the price/cost of using a lightweight windows manager? :(

b.) doing weekly emerge update in a ~amd64 @world, I got suprises from time to time...the latest is that DBus seems now all broken: I just can't shoot Docky anymore:
Code:
 $ docky
[Info  09:19:51.977] Docky version: 2.1.4 Release
[Info  09:19:51.981] Kernel version: 3.8.7.0
[Info  09:19:51.981] CLR version: 4.0.30319.1
[Fatal 09:19:52.061] DBus could not be found and is required by Docky. Exiting.

Is there a recent change that I should take care?
Is my config/autostart to be changed ?
It was just OK "before".... :roll:


Sorry for this dual-post, maybe I should have split, but I can't help but save topics.

cheers,
Ben
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 9:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

b.) mmmh actually I shoud do:
Code:
 $ dbus-launch docky
[Info  11:50:40.241] Docky version: 2.1.4 Release
[Info  11:50:40.245] Kernel version: 3.8.7.0
[Info  11:50:40.245] CLR version: 4.0.30319.1
[Error 11:50:40.388] [SystemService] Network Manager is not available.
[Info  11:50:40.396] [ThemeService] Setting theme: Transparent
[Warn  11:50:40.413] [DesktopItemService] Could not find remap file '/home/bli/.local/share/docky/remaps.ini'!
[Warn  11:50:40.499] [DrawingService] Error loading themed icon 'docky': Icon 'docky' not present in theme
[Info  11:50:40.500] [DrawingService] Could not find 'docky', using fallback of 'application-default-icon'.
[Warn  11:50:40.504] [DrawingService] Error loading themed icon 'docky': Icon 'docky' not present in theme
[Info  11:50:40.504] [DrawingService] Could not find 'docky', using fallback of 'application-default-icon'.
[Info  11:50:40.505] [DockServices] Dock services initialized.
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
[Info  11:50:41.044] [PluginManager] Loaded "Docky.Widgets,1.0".
[Info  11:50:41.044] [PluginManager] Loaded "Clock".
[Info  11:50:41.048] [PluginManager] Loaded "Mounter".
[Warn  11:50:41.114] [DrawingService] Failed to load icon resource menu.svg from assembly Docky.Services, Version=0.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null: Unrecognized image file
Unhandled Exception: System.ArgumentException: Width / Height must be greater than 0 if icon is not a file or embedded resource
  at Docky.Services.DrawingService.LoadIcon (System.String names, Int32 width, Int32 height) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Docky.Services.DrawingService.LoadIcon (System.String names, Int32 size) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Docky.Services.DrawingService.LoadIcon (System.String names) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Docky.Services.DrawingService.IsIconLight (System.String icon) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Docky.Menus.DockMenu.SetLight () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Docky.Menus.DockMenu..ctor (Gtk.Window parent) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Docky.Menus.DockItemMenu..ctor (Gtk.Window parent) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Docky.Interface.DockWindow..ctor () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Docky.Interface.Dock..ctor (Docky.Interface.DockPreferences prefs) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Docky.DockController.CreateDocks () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Docky.DockController.Initialize () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Docky.Docky.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.ArgumentException: Width / Height must be greater than 0 if icon is not a file or embedded resource
  at Docky.Services.DrawingService.LoadIcon (System.String names, Int32 width, Int32 height) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Docky.Services.DrawingService.LoadIcon (System.String names, Int32 size) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Docky.Services.DrawingService.LoadIcon (System.String names) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Docky.Services.DrawingService.IsIconLight (System.String icon) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Docky.Menus.DockMenu.SetLight () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Docky.Menus.DockMenu..ctor (Gtk.Window parent) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Docky.Menus.DockItemMenu..ctor (Gtk.Window parent) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Docky.Interface.DockWindow..ctor () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Docky.Interface.Dock..ctor (Docky.Interface.DockPreferences prefs) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Docky.DockController.CreateDocks () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Docky.DockController.Initialize () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Docky.Docky.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
 format





Wich is not better... :cry:
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

a) gtk+ and Qt apps always will look different, as long as you don't use themes that look the same (like oxygen + oxygen-gtk or qtcurve)
You may want to change your theme using qtconfig and gtk-chtheme.

b) Probably you had an update of glib recently. Try with rebuilding dbus-glib.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

a.) OK this is a nice hint: I am digging it.

b.) mmmh did not helped. I also tried clearing the docky cache, re-forcing the docky config etc... I just can't change the above error message
:(
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I run lxde on top of openbox, it gives me a (more or less) consistent look without the bloat of kde or gnome.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 11:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anon-E-moose wrote:
I run lxde on top of openbox, it gives me a (more or less) consistent look without the bloat of kde or gnome.

This is not about installing kde or gnome to make apps look similar but to make apps using different toolkits look similar (so the other way around):
I use qpdfview (Qt4) for reading pdfs and gimp (gtk+-2) for image processing. Those apps will always look different as they use different toolkits with different theming approaches/apis/... In order to make those apps (you don't want to replace!) look similar you have to use themes (for Qt4 and gtk+-2) looking similar.
And your setup (lxde+openbox) won't magically make that happen...
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anon-E-moose wrote:
...without the bloat of kde or gnome.

Meaning you don't even USE-flag them? (or even unUSE-flag them?!?)
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

blietaer wrote:
Anon-E-moose wrote:
...without the bloat of kde or gnome.

Meaning you don't even USE-flag them? (or even unUSE-flag them?!?)
8O


I do shut off these
Code:
-kde -gnome -libnotify -pam -consolekit -policykit -systemd -udisks
in my make.conf file

And don't try and run kde or gnome programs.


franzf wrote:
In order to make those apps (you don't want to replace!) look similar you have to use themes (for Qt4 and gtk+-2) looking similar.
And your setup (lxde+openbox) won't magically make that happen...


Wasn't trying to imply that it would. Yes I do use themes.

One can even do that with openbox by itself, http://box-look.org/ is a start
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