aktsbot / fluxbox-style-chicago95

A fluxbox style to complement the Chicago95 gtk theme

Chicago95 fluxbox

A fluxbox style to complement the Chicago95 gtk theme.

Screenshots

1. Clean

2. Messy

Installation

Copy the Chicago95 folder to your ~/.fluxbox/styles folder.

What's in the screenshots?

Take a peek in the extras folder :)

Follow the excellent Chicago95 install guide to setup the gtk theme, icons and fonts.

1. Conky on the bottom right.
2. Idesk for the desktop icons.
3. feh for managing wallpapers.
4. GTK theme is Chicago95 and the icon theme is SE98. The cursor theme is Chicago95 Standard Cursors from Chicago95.
5. The fluxbox menu is generated by a wonderful program called xdgmenumaker. Behold, the command

# without icons
#xdgmenumaker -f fluxbox --no-submenu > ~/.fluxbox/xdg_menu

# with icons
xdgmenumaker -f fluxbox --no-submenu -i > ~/.fluxbox/xdg_menu_icons

Then to include the menu in the main RootMenu, add the following to ~/.fluxbox/menu

[separator]
[include] (~/.fluxbox/xdg_menu_icons)
[separator]

6. To get the same look for the fluxbox toolbar, menu and windows, make the following changes in ~/.fluxbox/init

session.screen0.iconbar.alignment:      Left
session.screen0.iconbar.mode:   {static groups} (workspace)
session.screen0.iconbar.iconTextPadding:        5
session.screen0.iconbar.usePixmap:      true
session.screen0.iconbar.iconWidth:      225

session.screen0.workspaceNames: W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,

session.screen0.toolbar.widthPercent:   100
session.screen0.toolbar.tools:  workspacename, iconbar, systemtray, clock

session.screen0.clientMenu.usePixmap:   true

session.screen0.tabs.usePixmap: true
session.screen0.titlebar.left:
session.screen0.titlebar.right: Minimize Maximize Close

session.screen0.strftimeFormat: %a %d %b, %02k:%M

7. Follow Chicago95's guide to get the Helvetica font working. This fluxbox style, relies on the user's ~/.fluxbox/overlay file to set the fonts up. Here's what I have

*.font:                                 Helvetica-9
menu.frame.font:                        Helvetica-9
menu.title.font:                        Helvetica-9:bold
toolbar.clock.font:                     Helvetica-9:bold
toolbar.workspace.font:                 Helvetica-9:bold
toolbar.iconbar.focused.font:           Helvetica-9:bold
toolbar.iconbar.unfocused.font:         Helvetica-9
toolbar.button.font:                    Helvetica-9
window.font:                            Helvetica-9:bold
menu.hilite.font:                       Helvetica-9
window.font:                            Helvetica-9
window.label.focus.font:                Helvetica-9:bold
window.label.unfocus.font:              Helvetica-9:bold

8. The system tray has clipit, volumeicon, nmapplet and cbatticon.

Cheers!