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kexolino — Vertex Openbox Theme
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Published: 2014-10-07 05:26:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 10386; Favourites: 36; Downloads: 1857
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Openbox theme to match Vertex GTK theme. Not linking it because dA is real buggy now OoNot really meant to be used with titles (window labels).
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Who needs to label their windows, anyway? I'm loving the super-soft gradient here.
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Yeah, especially when tint2 already shows the window title. Actually, I rarely use the titlebar in Openbox, and tried disabling it, but that just feels weird for some reason (not to mention doesn't look too good).
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Yeah, I see the titlebar as similar to a hairstyle- a hairstyle you can grab. It's important to lend some personality, and it's comforting to know you have a few different ways to do something.
Honestly, I've stopped using panels lately (crazy, I know), and I still don't really need the titles. What's happening in the application usually gives me all the information I need to know. Still, I think I could use a panel if I got it set up just right, but things are easy enough without it. Middle-click to push back windows and scrolling to shade them are both life-savers in a panel-less setup.
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Don't you miss the system tray and a clock? I've run a panel-less setup for a while too (first with bspwm, then with evilwm), and it was pretty nice, but after a while, I just wanted the "traditional" Openbox setup back.
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I guess I don't use applications that make serious use of a tray icon, so it doesn't bother me much. For chat and music applications, so long as the program keeps running in background when the window is closed, that's all I really care about. I manage volume and music with the keyboard, anyway, and I can just bring up a utility to switch networks if there's a need for it. I can't really think of anything else I ever used a system tray for other than that, but I suppose it's convenient.
I guess I just got to a point where it was more convenient for me (mentally) to have nothing but application windows and a dead-simple menu.
I think the clock is honestly the only thing I've had an issue with, but a minimalistic conky can solve that issue. To be honest, when I was using KDE I purposely used the fuzzy clock since I found that my focus on minute measurements of time was becoming a bit unhealthy. XD
I still measure the amount of time applications are focused separately, however, since I'm a freelancer and I need to do accurate billing. Haha, that may have been a bit too in depth, but I just realized that I never really explained it to anyone before. Thanks for reading.
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I'm the opposite, if a window can run in the background, I tend to forget it exists if it there's no indication that it does. That's why I log in to IRC, type a few lines, and then just idle (if I was already in the middle of something) 
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Hah, no kidding. I am absolutely spoiled for choice- it's a miracle that I can stay with any desktop for more than a few months. I guess I've just grown to see my preferences, so it changes less often than it did when I first started using Linux.
Even still, I can see how remembering windows in the background could be a strain on cognition. It's the same idea behind a to-do list; writing it down frees up mental space to focus on what you're doing, not what you will do. In many ways, it's the same concept.
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