Hi, I really like working with LXDE but the one thing that is a constant problem is the window border width which is way too small to catch with the precision of a touchpad on a laptop. ( It's fine on my desktop system with a real mouse ).
I can't find any way in the various GUI tools to alter this.
Could someone tell me where this is if I'm over looking it or how this can be set from a config file or something.
It only seems to be one pixel wide and it often takes 15-20 seconds to hit it by rolling around on a touchpad and trying to move for long enough to press a "mouse" button and drag to resize a window. This is a real killer for productivity and very frustrating.
Please send help ;)
setting window frame width
Re: setting window frame width
Change the "border.Width" number in the ".themerc" for the window theme you are using. To find what theme you are using, open ~/.config/rc.xml and look in the "theme" section, which should be near the top. Your theme name should be between the tags <name></name>.
Theme documents are probably in ~/.themes. Find ".themerc" file in the file for your theme. If your theme is not in ~/.themes, then it will be in /usr/share/themes, in which case you will have to do the editing as root.
Theme documents are probably in ~/.themes. Find ".themerc" file in the file for your theme. If your theme is not in ~/.themes, then it will be in /usr/share/themes, in which case you will have to do the editing as root.
Re: setting window frame width
belated thanks, I've just had time to look at this.
I don't find the rc.xml file you indicated. In ~/.config/xfce4/mcs_settings/xfwm4.xml , I find
<option name="Xfwm/ThemeName" type="string" value="Default"/>
Right, not much help. From the GUI I worked out I was useing Clearlooks.
I find border.width=1 in /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/open*/themerc , that looks like the one.
Bit crazy that this is not configurable from the GUI tool.
Presumably that is going to disappear next time I do an update. Is there a way to make the user dependent and persistent?
Many thanks.
I don't find the rc.xml file you indicated. In ~/.config/xfce4/mcs_settings/xfwm4.xml , I find
<option name="Xfwm/ThemeName" type="string" value="Default"/>
Right, not much help. From the GUI I worked out I was useing Clearlooks.
I find border.width=1 in /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/open*/themerc , that looks like the one.
Bit crazy that this is not configurable from the GUI tool.
Presumably that is going to disappear next time I do an update. Is there a way to make the user dependent and persistent?
Many thanks.
Re: setting window frame width
create a folder in $HOME/.local/share/themes.luxy wrote:Presumably that is going to disappear next time I do an update. Is there a way to make the user dependent and persistent?
copy the whole theme in question over there, so it looks like this:
$HOME/.local/share/themes/Clearlooks/open*/themerc
that one won't be overwritten by updates.
btw, it might be better to rename it
$HOME/.local/share/themes/Clearlooks-mine
for distinction.
if you copied over index.theme, you have to edit that also.
and don't complain to me about missing GUIs; plain text file editing is the way!
Re: setting window frame width
Sorry, I got sloppy. User rc.xml file is in ~/.config/openbox. There are literally hundreds of themes available for openbox. See http://lxlinux.com/themes.html. Themes are quite easy to install. You could search for one that comes with a fat border width and suits you as well, otherwise. I don't know if changes in themrc are changed back with updates. My guess is they are not. Try an update to test it.
Re: setting window frame width
I will look at the other themes. I don't usually get too interested in stuff like theme tweeking but having a usable border is not something that can be written off as eye-candy.
I tend to work from command line but it seemed odd that there exists a "look and feel" GUI tool which includes a tab entitled "window border" which does not allow you to set the window border ;?
thanks for the help.
I tend to work from command line but it seemed odd that there exists a "look and feel" GUI tool which includes a tab entitled "window border" which does not allow you to set the window border ;?
thanks for the help.
Re: setting window frame width
it allows you to set the theme of the window decorations; but it is the theme itself that defines the width of the border.luxy wrote:it seemed odd that there exists a "look and feel" GUI tool which includes a tab entitled "window border" which does not allow you to set the window border ;?
that's how it is.
themes can be changed with a gui, but edited by hand.
Re: setting window frame width
In the "look and fell" GUI, there is a tab "window border" which itself has a tabbed pane one tab of which is the theme , the others called Title bar and Misc allow you to set just about every detail EXCEPT the window border.
That's how it is.
That's how it is.
Re: setting window frame width
i know exactly what you're talking about.
the choice of words might be unfortunate here, but it does not change what i wrote before.
just replace "window border" with "window decoration theme" in your mind.
and to actually change the border width, edit the themerc.
the choice of words might be unfortunate here, but it does not change what i wrote before.
just replace "window border" with "window decoration theme" in your mind.
and to actually change the border width, edit the themerc.