a set of tools to easily customize
your Mabox Linux Desktop
Easily change look and feel of:
Try Randomizer to change themes quickly. You can securely reset to defaults at any time New!
Reset to defaults...
(restore fresh install settings)
Colorizer offers two modes of operation: basic and advanced.
The Openbox module allows you to easily customize the appearance of window decorations.
It works only with special theme - MBcolors switch to Reset MBcolors
You can change most of basic settings directly from this help screen.
for active window
Note!
Changing the background color will also set:
- border color to the same color
- BGCOLOR_TO color for a subtle gradient
More than 300 beautifull pre-defined gradients are available from Colorizer OBtheme menu.
For much more options, fine-tunning and colors choices launch OBtheme menu
Menu / Side panels and numerous Mabox tools were created based on jgmenu. You can easily adapt them to your needs - both appearance and functionality
Border, inner margin, rounding, submenu spacing and fonts are global settings - independent of the color theme used. You can change it here
Mabox provides several Conky configurations.
Use Conky Manager to test and select which ones you like.
Conky in Mabox have been equipped with additional powers...
Click right mouse button on any Conky and you'll see a context menu. It allows you to conveniently:
Syntax for adding commands is very simple, see blog post: How to add custom commands to Menu and SidePanels
Super + C - toggle Conky - start/stop Conky session
Quickly place Conky on screen
To quickly arrange Conky to your liking, hold down the Ctrl key and click any Conky. You can now drag Conky anywhere on your desktop.
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:
Try how it works...
You can turn on audio visualization while listening to music. Click below, to try different options (numbers means height in pixels)
Full screen width: 200 100 50 or half screen width: 200 100 50
Use Colorizer Cava module to fine-tune colors, gradients and bars.
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 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.
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
To change theme for ssh and root sessions edit ~/.bashrc
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.
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:
tiny
normal
bold
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