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shelleyfrank

Member

Registered: 2015-04-04

Posts: 10

Rounded corners look messy.

Hi,

I've am using Slitaz 5. I noticed at some point in March, after doing updates and not paying attention to what packages got updated, that Openbox have been altered to display windows with rounded corners. It took me ages to discover which updates brought this change about, namely, the slitaz-configs-base and slitaz-configs packages.

Although I am excited about the future prospects of this new feature, I don't like the rounded corners at present, because the bottom corners of almost all window boxes look untidy, and this is the case in almost all themes. I also don't like rounded corners on the ends of the lxpanel.

So, after a long search, and eventually failing to find a way to turn the corner back to square ones, I ended up reinslalling Slitaz from scratch, using an old installer from last year, with older slitaz-configs and slitaz-configs-base packages contained in the installer image. On completion, I blocked these two packages in Tazpanel, so that I didn't end up getting the rounded corner back.

My question is, will it become possible to toggle between square and rounded corners in a future update, or is this the new look of slitaz from now on? Also, is there a way to revert to square corners by editing some file?

bellard

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-28

Posts: 657

Re: Rounded corners look messy.

Try to change border.width in /usr/share/themes/SliTaz/openbox-3/themerc and restart openbox.

See http://hg.slitaz.org/slitaz-configs/rev/9b9c9f353af6#l7.10

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Rounded corners look messy.

User rc.xml will not be overwritten when slitaz-configs is re-installed.

[c]tux@slitaz:~$ mkdir -p .config/openbox/[/c]

[c]tux@slitaz:~$ cp /etc/xdg/openbox/rc.xml .config/openbox[/c]

[c]tux@slitaz:~$ leafpad .config/openbox/rc.xml[/c]

Delete line 53:

<cornerRadius>4</cornerRadius>

Save, Logout/in Xsession

shelleyfrank

Member

Registered: 2015-04-04

Posts: 10

Re: Rounded corners look messy.

Thanks guys. Mojo, I have figured it out with pure luck minutes before you posted your reply.

To be cautious I first cooked the two packages, slitaz-configs and slitaz-configs-base so that I have a tazpkg of each. Then I updated the packages and rebooted. To my surprise my window boxes/ dialogues still had square corners! This is explained by the fact that the rc.xml stays put after the update, as you said. I browsed to the ~/.config/openbox folder and did the following:

I renamed /home/user/.config/openbox/rc.xml to rc.xml.OLD and rebooted. Then I compared the newly created rc.xml with the old file in Meld and hit upon line 53. Changing the value to 0 got rid of the rounded corners.

Thanks a lot. Issue solved.