Ansur wrote:I've some small issues with my Openbox WM, hopefully you guys can help me
glad to help a fellow openboxer.
when selecting themes, only the Openbox menu changes. When starting e.g. Firefox, it has its usual dull theme. Anything can be done about this?
openbox and firefox have a different theming mechanism, so you'll have to select themes separately in firefox. the same goes to kde apps, gnome apps, etc.
how does one start extra applications on starting Openbox? I'm thinking about pypanel and the likes.
openbox is just a window manager and it doesn't have the ability to open other applications on startup. however, there are ways to do it. you can create a .xinitrc file on you home dir, and load it with different applications. for example:
exec pypanel &
exec xterm &
exec openbox
when you start your xsession with startx, it will open pypanel and xterm alongside openbox. my prefered solution is to create this file as an executable and name it openbox-session, so that i can use it with gdm. i have it in /usr/local/bin. that file would contain:
#!/bin/sh
exec pypanel &
exec xterm &
exec openbox
Read
this thread, there is a concise HOWTO there that explains it better.
