Openbox window decoration
The Openbox module allows you to easily customize the appearance of window decorations.
It works only with special theme - MBcolors switch to MBcolors
Size presets
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Generate themes...
Mabox Colorizer pre-release
a set of tools to easily customize
your Mabox Linux Desktop
Easily change look and feel of:
- Openbox theme (window decorations)
- Menu/Sidepanels and other jgmenu-based Mabox tools
- Conkies
- Generate themes for all above from Wallpaper colors
Try Randomizer to change themes quickly. You can securely reset to defaults at any time.
Reset to defaults...
(restore fresh install settings)
Colorizer offers two modes of operation: basic and advanced.
- basic - you use this window - easy and fast
- advanced - using dynamically generated menus - more customization possibilities, unlimited choice of colors. Tuning.
Size presets
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tiny
normal
bold
dotsGradient type
More than 300 beautifull pre-defined gradients are available from Colorizer OBtheme menu.
Menu / Side panels
Menu / Side panels and numerous Mabox tools were created based on jgmenu. You can easily adapt them to your needs - both appearance and functionality
After each change, the menu will be shown.
Use Esc or click outside the menu to close it!
Use Esc or click outside the menu to close it!
If you need a full set of options, precise color tuning and transparency - use the advanced dynamic menu
Menu
Menu
Generate themes...
Padding
Menu Border
Submenu spacing
Item height
Menu Border
Submenu spacing
Item height
Main menu settings
Edit commands
Super key, left-click on desktop or from Mabox icon in panel
Search field
Apps in rootmenu (or submenu)
Icons
Edit commands
Conky
Mabox provides several Conky configurations. click names below to toggle
System Info
Default
with Graph
Mini
CPU
RAM
Discs
Network
Educational
Shortcuts
PCmanFM
Terminal
Mabox Tools
Clock and others
Clock
Clock and Date
Quotes
Logo
For more options use dynamic menu Conky Manager & Colorizer
Generate themes...
Conky in Mabox has been equipped with additional powers not available in any other Linux distribution!
Easy on screen arranging
Make Moveable all and change Conkys position by dragging one by one. (Hold Alt while dragging)
Right mouse click for customization context menu
Click right mouse button on any Conky for context menu, which allows you to:
- apply one of the ready-made color themes for the selected Conky
- set text colors, borders, shadow or outline effects
- manually change the background color or make it transparent
- disable (kill), reload or edit Conky
- add or edit custom commands for left click (see below)
Own command(s) Launcher (or menu) on left click on Conky
You can add your own commands to each Conky, which will be shown on left mouse click.
To edit commands, right-click on a single Conky and select -> Edit cmd... from the menu.
If only one command is defined, Conky will act like a launcher (icon) - firing up command immediately after left click. If you add more commands, a menu will be shown.
Default and Logo Conky already have predefined commands, left-click on them to see this feature in action.
Syntax for adding commands is very simple, see blog post: How to add custom commands to Menu and SidePanels
Tips
Click actions on any Conky:
right click to access context menu
left click to run command or show menu (if defined)
Super + left click will make all Conkies moveable
Global shortcut:
Super + C - toggle Conky session - start/stop all Conkies
Generating themes from wallpaper
Colorizer generates a color palette based on the currently set wallpaper
Based on such a color palette, it is possible to use two versions of themes (dark and light) for:
- OpenBox window decoration
- Menus, Panels
- Conky
Try how it works...
How to change wallpaper in Mabox?
The recommended method is to use the context menu in the file manager.
Click Select wallpaper - the file manager will be launched with all defined wallpaper directories in tabs. Use the context menu to set the selected wallpaper. Ctrl + 3 allows you to change the view mode to Thumbnails
You can define multiple directories where you store wallpapers
Configure directories
Fonts
To set fonts for Openbox window decorations, GTK, Conky and Menu/Panels...
use dynamic menu Fonts
Cava - Audio Visualizer
Cava is a bar spectrum audio visualizer for terminal.
In Mabox you can easily run Cava in a transparent* terminal - which gives an interesting effect...
*) compositor is required for transparency, toggle Picom
Use dynamic menu Cava to fine-tune colors, use gradients.
Music & Sound dynamic menu can serve as basic, lightweight music player (mpv-based) you might like to try. Also available from panel's volume icon - right click
PyRadio - Internet Radio
PyRadio is advanced command line internet radio player.
You can turn on PyRadio super+r
Colorizer can generate pyradio themes based on palette of currently used wallpaper.
Use Colorizer PyRadio module to fine-tune colors.
Terminal theme
Mabox comes with many terminal themes available (~400)
The interactive selector will help you find a suitable theme (Enter/Esc - use selected theme, Ctrl+c - cancel)
You can run terminal theme selector any time from cli by th alias
Different colors for root and SSH sessions
To change theme for ssh and root sessions edit ~/.bashrc
Terminator and Quake-like terminal
Terminator is default terminal in Mabox. Use super + t to run it in normal window or F12 to start as quake-terminal (press F12 again to show/hide it).
Terminator is a tiling terminal. You can run educational Conky showing you some shortcuts useful when working with terminator.
Tint2 panel
Colorizer module for Tint2 panel is not available yet - currently in active development!
You can support development if you like...
For now... use quite powerfull Tint2 config menu.
Save and Restore
If you are satisfied with your configuration, you can save it as a meta-theme so that you can restore it later.
Theme Manager will save:
- Openbox Theme (window decoration)
- GTK and Icon Theme
- Wallpaper
- Conkies
- Terminal theme
- Menu / Sidepanels colors
- Tint2 panel