Category Archives: Tips and tricks

Openbox basics and Dark_Exit theme release

It is time to release an Openbox theme. If you are still unaware what Openbox is here comes a short introduction from www.openbox.org

“Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support.

The *box visual style is well known for its minimalistic appearance. Openbox uses the *box visual style, while providing a greater number of options for theme developers than previous *box implementations. The theme documentation describes the full range of options found in Openbox themes.” Continue reading →

JWM theme: Black dust release (GPL)

Another week is about to start and to celebrate that here is a new JWM theme and a background. This theme was inspired by Dust themes which I used to use some years ago.

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Boxed Tint2 configuration

It certainly has been a busy week but nevertheless it is once again time to present another post. As I have used quite a lot Tint2 panel I regularly find my preferences for the panel’s outlook to change. Here is the very recent configuration I did.

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Arch Linux: Install packages from AUR (Arch User Repository)

These days there are many good Linux/Unix distributions which do come with some great software out of the box. In some cases it might just be that the software you want is not available by default nor shall it be found on the default distribution repositories. Continue reading →