New kids on the block
Well, not those kids anyway… 
I just packaged a couple of new applications today to see if I could augment my Openbox experience. Well, one of them was more out of curiosity. 
The first one was Nitrogen, “a background browser and setter for X windows.” It is fairly light with a very clean interface. Sure I can set my wallpaper via the command line, but the preview thumbnails are very helpful! Speaking to Dave, lead developer for the project, I learned about a couple of new features (already checked in SVN) for the next release! Make sure to pester him with your suggestions via his contact information found in the web site.
The second application was Gnome-Specimen, “your favourite tool for previewing and comparing fonts”. Once again, a fairly light and easy application that could be very helpful to anyone who wants to preview the effect of fonts on a given text.
The screenshot below shows both applications running on Openbox 3.3.995… For a higher resolution, click on it.
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June 4th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Og, your stuff lately has been really great on openbox. I’d love to see a “Using openbox on Ubuntu” guide. Not how to use openbox as a metacity replacement, but as a minimalistic desktop. I’m interested in how to make a useful openbox environment without spending weeks writing config files, if you know what I mean. BTW, are you using pypanel in that screenshot?
June 4th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
Hey dude, thanks for dropping by!
I could definitely write something up, specially since I only run Openbox… Let me see if I can find some free time this weekend…
By the way, you were right… that is pypanel.
Cheers,
Og
June 4th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
A nice wallpaper program I recommend is Webilder, which automatically downloads wallpapers from Flickr from a given list of tags.