Changeset 7b0365f for x/wm/openbox.xml

Timestamp:

05/04/2012 03:37:21 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

Andrew Benton <andy@…>

Branches:

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Children:

ff43ebb

Parents:

9166fa4

Message:

Openbox tweaks

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@10077 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• x/wm/openbox.xml (modified) (4 diffs)

x/wm/openbox.xml

@@ -137 +137 @@
 
       <para>
-        In ~/.config/openbox and /etc/xdg/openbox, <filename>menu.xml</filename>
-        and <filename>rc.xml</filename>
+        /etc/xdg/openbox/menu.xml, /etc/xdg/openbox/rc.xml,
+        ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml and ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml
       </para>
 
@@ -161 +161 @@
 
       <para>
-        <application>Openbox</application>'s right click menu is used to launch
-        programs. The menu itself is configured with 2 files,
+        <application>Openbox</application>'s right click menu can be used to
+        launch programs. The menu itself is configured with 2 files,
         <filename>/etc/xdg/openbox/menu.xml</filename> and
-        <filename>~/.config/openbox/menu.xml</filename>. If
-        <filename>~/.config/openbox/menu.xml</filename> doesn't exist then
-        <application>Openbox</application> will copy
-        <filename>/etc/xdg/openbox/menu.xml</filename> to
-        <filename>~/.config/openbox/menu.xml</filename> when it is launched.
-      </para>
-
-      <para>
+        <filename>~/.config/openbox/menu.xml</filename>. To make changes to the
+        menu, copy /etc/xdg/openbox/menu.xml to ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml and
+        edit it:
+      </para>
+
+<screen role="user"><userinput>cp -rf /etc/xdg/openbox ~/.config</userinput></screen>
+      <para>
+
         <filename>~/.config/openbox/menu.xml</filename> can be edited with a
         text editor or you can install
@@ -186 +186 @@
       </para>
 
-<screen role="user"><userinput>&lt;item label="Mplayer" icon="/usr/share/pixmaps/mplayer.png"&gt;</userinput></screen>
+<screen>&lt;item label="Mplayer" icon="/usr/share/pixmaps/mplayer.png"&gt;</screen>
 
       <para>
@@ -216 +216 @@
 
       <para>
-        Alternatively, use the <command>openbox-session</command> script to
-        launch <command>openbox</command>. It runs another script,
-        <filename>~/.config/openbox/autostart</filename> and if that doesn't
-        exist it runs <filename>/etc/xdg/openbox/autostart</filename>. You can
-        create <filename>~/.config/openbox/autostart</filename> and edit it to
-        start any other programs you want running during your
-        <application>Openbox</application> session (eg, a panel or Dbus).
-      </para>
+        If you want to set a background image to your desktop you can use
+        <xref linkend="display"/> and launch it from ~/.xinitrc just before
+        openbox:
+      </para>
+
+<screen role="user"><userinput>cat &gt; ~/.xinitrc &lt;&lt; "HERE_DOC"
+display -backdrop -window root /path/to/beautiful/picture.jpeg
+exec openbox
+HERE_DOC</userinput></screen>
+
+      <para>
+        Or if you like a bit of variety, put a selection of images in a folder
+        and choose one at random each time you <command>xinit</command>:
+      </para>
+
+<screen role="user"><userinput>cat &gt; ~/.xinitrc &lt;&lt; "HERE_DOC"
+picture_list=(~/.config/backgrounds/*)
+random_number=$(( ${RANDOM} % ${#picture_list[*]} ))
+display -backdrop -window root "${picture_list[$random_number]}"
+exec openbox
+HERE_DOC</userinput></screen>
+
+      <para>
+        If you like to have the numlock key set whan you start Xorg, install
+        <ulink url="http://home.kde.org/~seli/numlockx/">Numlockx</ulink> and
+        add that to your xinitrc. Another useful application is
+        <xref linkend="dbus"/>
+      </para>
+
+<screen role="user"><userinput>cat &gt; ~/.xinitrc &lt;&lt; "HERE_DOC"
+. /etc/profile
+picture_list=(~/.config/backgrounds/*)
+random_number=$(( ${RANDOM} % ${#picture_list[*]} ))
+display -backdrop -window root "${picture_list[$random_number]}"
+numlockx
+eval $(dbus-launch --auto-syntax --exit-with-session)
+lxpanel &amp;
+exec openbox
+HERE_DOC</userinput></screen>
     </sect3>
   </sect2>