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Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2025 6:45 pm**

I would like to cull some of the native styles which come with fluxbox to make some space for user created styles.

This would be my list ( can stay, should go, indifferent)

arch
Artwiz
Bity_fluxbox
bloe
BlueFlux
BlueNight
bora_black
bora_blue
bora_green
carp
debian-blue
debian-dark
doty
emerge
Flux
green_tea
LemonSpace
Makro
MerleyKay
Meta
Nyz
Operation
ostrich
Outcomes
qnx-photon
Results
Shade
Squared_blue
Squared_for_Debian
Squared_green
Twice
zimek_bisque
zimek_darkblue
zimek_green

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2025 7:01 pm**

@CharlesV made a nice xfwm theme named PiranhaII a while back. viewtopic.php?t=79560&hilit=piranhaII

I made a fluxbox version

piranhaII.png

Perhaps a candidate to be included as a new home grown style.

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2025 7:26 pm**

Melber wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2025 6:45 pm I would like to cull some of the native styles which come with fluxbox to make some space for user created styles.

This would be my list ( can stay, should go, indifferent)

arch
Artwiz
Bity_fluxbox
bloe
BlueFlux
BlueNight
bora_black
bora_blue
bora_green
carp
debian-blue
debian-dark
doty
emerge
Flux
green_tea
LemonSpace
Makro
MerleyKay
Meta
Nyz
Operation
ostrich
Outcomes
qnx-photon
Results
Shade
Squared_blue
Squared_for_Debian
Squared_green
Twice
zimek_bisque
zimek_darkblue
zimek_green

I could work with that. Those all came from a single download from tenr, so I don't believe it would ever be overwritten if we removed them.

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2025 7:36 pm**

I wouldn't shed any tears if we dropped all the tenr themes, but maybe other users are fond of one or two of them...

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2025 7:40 pm**

Melber wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2025 7:01 pm @CharlesV made a nice xfwm theme named PiranhaII a while back. viewtopic.php?t=79560&hilit=piranhaII

I made a fluxbox version
piranhaII.png

Perhaps a candidate to be included as a new home grown style.

Wow, nice work by you both! *puts up thumb!

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2025 8:40 pm**

These are the styles I have installed from both of tenr.de's tar files. I use them all the time when theming my desktop.

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bias_green        Deb666            mumpiz_green          slim_green
bias_lavender     deepblue          MX-comfort            split_green
blacksteel        deepflux          MX-comfort-dark       tequila_sunrise
blueJess1.3       Doty              MX-comfort-plus       tron_blue
bora_blue         grass1.3          MX-comfort-plus-dark  tron_green
bora_olive        greenworks        neon_green            tron_orange
carbonium_green   hydrocyanic       peak_ocean            tron_purple
carbonium_yellow  laser_green       plain_green           tron_red
centurion_green   LemonSpace        Qtek-blue             tron_yellow
centurion_yellow  looksClear_green  rings_mint            underwater
creme             modi              saintPatrick

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2025 2:23 am**

Melber wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2025 7:36 pm I wouldn't shed any tears if we dropped all the tenr themes, but maybe other users are fond of one or two of them...

+1

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2025 6:39 am**

A possible compromise: remove the intersection of Melber and Siamhie choices and provide a link (Users Manual? Tweak Help?) to download the other 200 or however many there are.

I would also like to see the list greatly reduced.

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2025 6:41 am**

@Melber : please make the thread a "sticky"

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2025 7:45 am**

Jerry3904 wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2025 6:41 am @Melber : please make the thread a "sticky"

and how do I do that?

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2025 7:57 am**

Go back to your first post and click on the pencil icon to edit. Scroll down to see the options available: normal, sticky et al

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2025 10:08 am**

@Jerry3904 I think only a mod or admin can make something a sticky.

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2025 10:11 am**

Eadwine Rose wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2025 10:08 am @Jerry3904 I think only a mod or admin can make something a sticky.

That is correct.

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2025 10:51 am**

richb wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2025 10:11 am
Eadwine Rose wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2025 10:08 am @Jerry3904 I think only a mod or admin can make something a sticky.
That is correct.

Was it done? and how can we tell?

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2025 10:57 am**

It was done, change to sticky is no longer available.

You can also see it stuck with some gum at the top of this forum.

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2025 11:04 am**

Eadwine Rose wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2025 10:08 am @Jerry3904 I think only a mod or admin can make something a sticky.

thanks, can't say as I ever knew that

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2025 11:09 am**

Jerry3904 wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2025 6:39 am A possible compromise: remove the intersection of Melber and Siamhie choices and provide a link (Users Manual? Tweak Help?) to download the other 200 or however many there are.

I would also like to see the list greatly reduced.

@Jerry3904 @Melber
Trimming it down doesn't bother me and maybe I can put something together to allow the user to select their own style they install.

I just brought back the [stylesdir] to my setup under Appearance. This way tweak can display the system styles and my menu can display my installed styles.
The init file gets updated regardless of which selection I use. Tweak or styles menu.

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[submenu] (Style)
         	[stylesdir] (~/.fluxbox/mystyles) 
    [end]

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apps                 init           menu-mx              scripts   submenus
backgrounds          keys           mystyles             slitlist  windowmenu
fbrun_history        lastwallpaper  overlay              startup
fluxbox-mx-defaults  menu           pre-global-menu.txt  styles

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2025 12:32 pm**

@Jerry3904 @siamhie @ceeslans @anybodyelse

Do you have one or two personal faves you've made yourself/found elsewhere which you would like to propose for inclusion in the mx-collection?

So far we've got the various comfort styles and piranhaII. Depending on what is decided for the mx25 default theme, I may need to make a couple more to match...

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2025 1:07 pm**

Melber wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2025 12:32 pm @Jerry3904 @siamhie @ceeslans @anybodyelse

Do you have one or two personal faves you've made yourself/found elsewhere which you would like to propose for inclusion in the mx-collection?

So far we've got the various comfort styles and piranhaII. Depending on what is decided for the mx25 default theme, I may need to make a couple more to match...

You will see me use these styles a lot in my theming. Any will do.

hydrocyanic

modi

peak_ocean

tequila_sunrise

any of the tron_ colors

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2025 1:11 pm**

I do not. I used some and liked them but have not kept a list or folder.

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2025 4:38 pm**

Melber wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2025 12:32 pm @Jerry3904 @siamhie @ceeslans @anybodyelse

Do you have one or two personal faves you've made yourself/found elsewhere which you would like to propose for inclusion in the mx-collection?

So far we've got the various comfort styles and piranhaII. Depending on what is decided for the mx25 default theme, I may need to make a couple more to match...

If you all feel it would fit the upcoming mxfb25 release, I would like to share my own Minimo style and tint2 conf

Would need to update (or rather downdate) the styles file though, since I made changes to paths, omitted all window button and bullet pixmaps etcetc . And the tint2 config is filled with non-mxfb executors. Or perhaps @Melber could have a go on that? :)
Below screenshot, running on mxflux. gtk2/3 theme is gruvbox-dark. Also copied its fluxbox toolbar (captured whilst running on fluxuan/devuan) into the screenie.
Please let me know if this will do.

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2025 4:44 pm**

Looks great!

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2025 5:49 pm**

@siamhie @ceeslans
Thanks to both of you.

siamhie wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2025 1:07 pm You will see me use these styles a lot in my theming...

My vote would be for modi or peak ocean and maybe tron green.

ceeslans wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2025 4:38 pm If you all feel it would fit the upcoming mxfb25 release, I would like to share my own Minimo style and tint2 conf
Would need to update (or rather downdate) the styles file though, since I made changes to paths, omitted all window button and bullet pixmaps etcetc ...

Yes please, downdate away.

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2025 5:55 pm**

@ceeslans That would be great to include!

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2025 7:42 pm**

Melber wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2025 5:49 pm
My vote would be for modi or peak ocean and maybe tron green.

@Melber Peak Ocean is such a beautiful blue.

Here's what it looks like using the default fluxbox desktop (no tint2).

Posted: **Sun Jan 26, 2025 9:24 am**

Going back to @Melber's list, I propose that we remove all except his "can stay" to which I suggest including one other from his "indifferent" list. We can somewhere point to the download location for all the others from tenr if necessary. That would give us 8 total:

bota_black
bora_blue
bora_green
debian-blue
LemonSpace << I suggest adding back b/c unusual color in collection
MerleyKay
Squared_For_Debian
Squared_green

To that the others we are talking about can be added to produce a much improved style list for mxfb2025

Posted: **Sun Jan 26, 2025 10:54 am**

a note on fluxbox styles:

most of the fluxbox styles are part of the fluxbox package. so to remove them, fluxbox will need to be repackaged. I presume you will want to have a separate build of fluxbox for mx25, as otherwise you could remove a theme in use already on mx23.

we already package fluxbox ourselves, so I doubt its a huge deal. Just mentioning it.

Posted: **Sun Jan 26, 2025 10:56 am**

Thanks.

Posted: **Sun Jan 26, 2025 11:52 am**

Another option - antiX removes some fluxbox styles at build time via delete-files.list

Posted: **Sun Jan 26, 2025 12:00 pm**

. Neat trick, thanks. Might be easier

Posted: **Sun Jan 26, 2025 12:10 pm**

It’s fine as long as there is never an update. Which for fluxbox that may be true.

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2025 8:54 am**

Jerry3904 wrote: Sun Jan 26, 2025 9:24 am Going back to @Melber's list, I propose that we remove all except his "can stay" to which I suggest including one other from his "indifferent" list. We can somewhere point to the download location for all the others from tenr if necessary. That would give us 8 total:
bota_black
bora_blue
bora_green
debian-blue
LemonSpace << I suggest adding back b/c unusual color in collection
MerleyKay
Squared_For_Debian
Squared_green
To that the others we are talking about can be added to produce a much improved style list for mxfb2025

Are people good with this, can I put it into the "Done" category?

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2025 9:45 am**

Jerry3904 wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 8:54 am
Jerry3904 wrote: Sun Jan 26, 2025 9:24 am Going back to @Melber's list, I propose that we remove all except his "can stay" to which I suggest including one other from his "indifferent" list. We can somewhere point to the download location for all the others from tenr if necessary. That would give us 8 total:
bota_black
bora_blue
bora_green
debian-blue
LemonSpace << I suggest adding back b/c unusual color in collection
MerleyKay
Squared_For_Debian
Squared_green
To that the others we are talking about can be added to produce a much improved style list for mxfb2025
Are people good with this, can I put it into the "Done" category?

Why were we asked for our favorites (post #18) if they aren't going to be included. There's three Bora styles and two Squared in this default list.
I think Peak Ocean is more modern looking than the Squared ones. Just saying.

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2025 9:59 am**

Why were we asked for our favorites (post #18) if they aren't going to be included.

Oversight, I have many irons in this particular fire.

Pls post a modification of that list so people can look at it.

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2025 11:32 am**

@siamhie
To hopefully clarify things, fluxbox styles are coming from two sources.

Fluxbox itself brings along the big list of ugly, which I proposed to cull down. (This will require rebuilding fluxbox). Jerry's list is only contains those "fluxbox native" styles which we will still include.

Fluxbox native styles

bota_black
bora_blue
bora_green
debian-blue
LemonSpace
MerleyKay
Squared_For_Debian
Squared_green

MX adds additional styles via the mx-fluxbox package. https://github.com/MX-Linux/mx-fluxbox/ ... box/styles
That's where I imagined the user created styles would go. At present this mx list looks like this

MX Styles

MX -comfort
MX-comfort-dark
MX-comfort-plus
MX-comfort-plus-dark
Peak-Ocean
Minimo
PiranhaII
+ potential new style to match MX25 default theme if it's changed

The styles from both lists are available to the user after installation.

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2025 11:42 am**

Thanks for the light!

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2025 12:41 pm**

Melber wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 11:32 am @siamhie
To hopefully clarify things, fluxbox styles are coming from two sources.

Fluxbox itself brings along the big list of ugly, which I proposed to cull down. (This will require rebuilding fluxbox). Jerry's list is only contains those "fluxbox native" styles which we will still include.

Fluxbox native styles
bota_black
bora_blue
bora_green
debian-blue
LemonSpace
MerleyKay
Squared_For_Debian
Squared_green

MX adds additional styles via the mx-fluxbox package. https://github.com/MX-Linux/mx-fluxbox/ ... box/styles
That's where I imagined the user created styles would go. At present this mx list looks like this

MX Styles
MX -comfort
MX-comfort-dark
MX-comfort-plus
MX-comfort-plus-dark
Peak-Ocean
Minimo
PiranhaII
+ potential new style to match MX25 default theme if it's changed

The styles from both lists are available to the user after installation.

OK. What would you recommend to new users who might download from outside sources like tenr, pling, box-look, xfce-look, etc. to place the styles/theme? Default location (~/.fluxbox/styles).

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2025 12:59 pm**

I'd put them in ~/.fluxbox/styles
Easy to find and to edit.

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2025 1:01 pm**

Or these:

system wide: /usr/share/themes
user: ~/.local/share/themes

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2025 6:36 pm**

Jerry3904 wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 1:01 pm user: ~/.local/share/themes

New users will have to create the folder but tweak doesn't see fluxbox styles in that location.
Tested with this download. FluxModern https://www.box-look.org/p/2078969

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╔═[siamhie@flux23]═[15:31 28/01/25]════════════════════[~/.fluxbox/styles/FluxModern]
╚═> ls -l
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 siamhie siamhie 4096 Jan 28 15:26 pixmaps
-rw-r--r-- 1 siamhie siamhie 6191 Aug 12  2023 theme.cfg

Best to keep them in the styles folder and make sure that new users know that when downloading from other sources.

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2025 6:43 pm**

Melber wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 12:59 pm I'd put them in ~/.fluxbox/styles
Easy to find and to edit.

True. I have two styles folders that I use. The default styles folder (styles) and my personal styles folder (mystyles) that I access from the Appearance menu.
This way I can quickly copy over my favorites from my data drive that has all of the styles from tenr's web site extracted (477 styles to choose from).

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2025 7:52 pm**

OK

I thought we were talking about themes, and such a folder would be in $PATH,

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2025 7:56 pm**

for what its work, mx-tweak checks two areas for fluxbox styles. these are classic areas and that's where I would expect any fluxbox styles to be

1. /usr/share/fluxbox/styles
2. $HOME/.fluxbox/styles

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2025 10:39 pm**

Jerry3904 wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 7:52 pm OK

I thought we were talking about themes, and such a folder would be in $PATH,

In the world of fluxbox, it's referred to as styles. They only change the menu, window and toolbar.
DE themes might also change icons, cursors and more.

What is a Style?

Styles, sometimes referred to as Themes, are a graphical overlay for the fluxbox(1) window manager.
If you wanted to get to know fluxbox, the styles would be the look of the look and feel.

https://fluxbox.org/help/man-fluxbox-style/

Posted: **Wed Jan 29, 2025 5:42 am**

Well thank you very much.

Posted: **Wed Apr 23, 2025 10:58 am**

Melber wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2025 7:01 pm @CharlesV made a nice xfwm theme named PiranhaII a while back. viewtopic.php?t=79560&hilit=piranhaII

I made a fluxbox version
piranhaII.png

Perhaps a candidate to be included as a new home grown style.

Can you send me that, working on a new skel now--thanks.

Posted: **Wed Apr 23, 2025 11:08 am**

Melber wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2025 5:49 pm @siamhie @ceeslans
Thanks to both of you.

siamhie wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2025 1:07 pm You will see me use these styles a lot in my theming...
My vote would be for modi or peak ocean and maybe tron green.

ceeslans wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2025 4:38 pm If you all feel it would fit the upcoming mxfb25 release, I would like to share my own Minimo style and tint2 conf
Would need to update (or rather downdate) the styles file though, since I made changes to paths, omitted all window button and bullet pixmaps etcetc ...
Yes please, downdate away.

@ceeslans This would be the moment to send me that theme for MX-25 if still possible
@Melber how can I get those three?

Posted: **Wed Apr 23, 2025 12:18 pm**

Jerry3904 wrote: Wed Apr 23, 2025 11:08 am @Melber how can I get those three?

http://www.tenr.de/styles/archives/modi.tar.bz2
http://www.tenr.de/styles/archives/tron_green.tar.bz2
http://www.tenr.de/styles/archives/peak_ocean.tar.bz2

or have you made further edits to them @siamhie?

Posted: **Wed Apr 23, 2025 12:30 pm**

Melber wrote: Wed Apr 23, 2025 12:18 pm
Jerry3904 wrote: Wed Apr 23, 2025 11:08 am @Melber how can I get those three?
http://www.tenr.de/styles/archives/modi.tar.bz2
http://www.tenr.de/styles/archives/tron_green.tar.bz2
http://www.tenr.de/styles/archives/peak_ocean.tar.bz2

or have you made further edits to them @siamhie?

I don't edit the styles from tenr directly. I use overlay for that.

Posted: **Wed Apr 23, 2025 12:36 pm**

Melber wrote: Wed Apr 23, 2025 12:18 pm
Jerry3904 wrote: Wed Apr 23, 2025 11:08 am @Melber how can I get those three?
http://www.tenr.de/styles/archives/modi.tar.bz2
http://www.tenr.de/styles/archives/tron_green.tar.bz2
http://www.tenr.de/styles/archives/peak_ocean.tar.bz2

or have you made further edits to them @siamhie?

Oh, I thought you were suggesting new user-made styles.

Posted: **Wed Apr 23, 2025 1:03 pm**

Jerry3904 wrote: Wed Apr 23, 2025 10:58 am
Melber wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2025 7:01 pm I made a fluxbox version
Perhaps a candidate to be included as a new home grown style.
Can you send me that, working on a new skel now--thanks.

I have the following user mades:
- mx-ease
- mx-ease-dark
(both with minor updates to previous versions)
- matcha-mx
- matcha-mx-dark
(matching @asqwerth's theme-in-progress)
- piranhaII

Do you want them in a .tar or should I just make a PR to your mx-fluxbox repo?

Posted: **Wed Apr 23, 2025 1:04 pm**

To me, please. Reorganizing...

Posted: **Wed Apr 23, 2025 1:12 pm**

ok, will pm you the files in a couple of hours

Posted: **Wed Apr 23, 2025 1:38 pm**

Thanks

Posted: **Fri Apr 25, 2025 8:27 am**

FYI, mx-tweak in trixie now has a checkbox to show or hide "legacy" fluxbox styles. By default the style are searched in the following folders

1. /usr/share/mx-fluxbox/styles/
2. $HOME/.fluxbox/styles/
3. /usr/share/fluxbox/styles/

the last the is the location of all the existing legacy styles. by default those are not shown.

If styles of the same name exist in multiple folders, styles will be applied when selected in the following order of precedence

$HOME/.fluxbox/styles/
/usr/share/mx-fluxbox/styles/
/usr/share/fluxbox/styles/

Posted: **Fri Apr 25, 2025 9:10 am**

dolphin_oracle wrote: Fri Apr 25, 2025 8:27 am FYI, mx-tweak in trixie now has a checkbox to show or hide "legacy" fluxbox styles. By default the style are searched in the following folders

1. /usr/share/mx-fluxbox/styles/
2. $HOME/.fluxbox/styles/
3. /usr/share/fluxbox/styles/

the last the is the location of all the existing legacy styles. by default those are not shown.

If styles of the same name exist in multiple folders, styles will be applied when selected in the following order of precedence

$HOME/.fluxbox/styles/
/usr/share/mx-fluxbox/styles/
/usr/share/fluxbox/styles/

Sounds good.

Am I right in assuming the mx styles will be moved from mx-fluxbox repo to mxfb-styles repo and installed to /usr/share/mx-fluxbox/styles ?
If so, the mx-comfort tool (creates a new style based on mx-comfort) in mxfb-accessories will need a little fiddling.

Posted: **Fri Apr 25, 2025 11:27 am**

Melber wrote: Fri Apr 25, 2025 9:10 am
dolphin_oracle wrote: Fri Apr 25, 2025 8:27 am FYI, mx-tweak in trixie now has a checkbox to show or hide "legacy" fluxbox styles. By default the style are searched in the following folders

1. /usr/share/mx-fluxbox/styles/
2. $HOME/.fluxbox/styles/
3. /usr/share/fluxbox/styles/

the last the is the location of all the existing legacy styles. by default those are not shown.

If styles of the same name exist in multiple folders, styles will be applied when selected in the following order of precedence

$HOME/.fluxbox/styles/
/usr/share/mx-fluxbox/styles/
/usr/share/fluxbox/styles/
Sounds good.

Am I right in assuming the mx styles will be moved from mx-fluxbox repo to mxfb-styles repo and installed to /usr/share/mx-fluxbox/styles ?
If so, the mx-comfort tool (creates a new style based on mx-comfort) in mxfb-accessories will need a little fiddling.

@Jerry3904 is working out details about where the new fluxbox styles location will ultimately be. I will adjust mx-tweak to match whatever is set up.

Posted: **Fri Apr 25, 2025 12:37 pm**

@Melber probably going to be /usr/share/mxflux/styles/

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2025 4:38 pm**

@Jerry3904

mxfb-styles install file has

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modern/* 	usr/share/mxflux/styles
traditional/*   usr/share/mxflux/styles

Shouldn't it be

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modern/* 	usr/share/mxflux/styles
traditional/*   usr/share/fluxbox/styles

or all all styles now supposed to end up in the same directory?

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2025 5:35 pm**

Thanks for looking at it. They are supposed to all end up in the same directory. No user will know what to think and the coding I understand gets weird or something.

I will be upgrading that before the weekend with more license info--and I asked DO to try to filter out the credits file and some "folder"--so if you see anything else please let me know.

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2025 6:35 pm**

am I understanding this right?

- nothing will be installed by default in ~/.fluxbox/styles. If user saves a style there it will show in mx-tweak.
- mxfb-styles/modern/* (our user styles) and mxfb-styles/traditional/* (our curated list of legacy styles) both get installed to usr/share/mxflux/styles and appear in mx-tweak.
- fluxbox is still going to install it's big bag of ugly to /usr/share/fluxbox/styles, which will only show in mx-tweak if the "legacy" checkbox is checked.

@Jerry3904 I think you need to go over the contents of mxfb-styles/traditional. It currently has a lot more legacy styles in it than in our list here https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 68#p807368. The three tenr styles aren't there. There's also a "styles" folder containing the readme.md which seems odd.

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2025 6:54 pm**

User styles will show up and have precedence over any other version.

I created the shirt list from your post, on phone ATM so can't identify. By checking the little box above the window the user sees every Tenner style installed instead of out curated list.

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2025 7:04 pm**

mxfb-styles 25.04.03 gets rid of the bogus folder

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2025 7:07 pm**

Excellent!

Posted: **Tue Apr 29, 2025 5:55 am**

Jerry3904 wrote: Mon Apr 28, 2025 6:54 pm User styles will show up and have precedence over any other version.

I created the shirt list from your post, on phone ATM so can't identify. By checking the little box above the window the user sees every Tenner style installed instead of out curated list.

From here: https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 06#p807106.

@Melber I also see now that you were thinking we should point to the full list: /usr/share/fluxbox/styles/ Makes sense, will include next version--and that will answer the question from @siamhie about his favorites.

Posted: **Tue Apr 29, 2025 7:45 am**

Jerry3904 wrote: Tue Apr 29, 2025 5:55 am @Melber I also see now that you were thinking we should point to the full list: /usr/share/fluxbox/styles/ Makes sense, will include next version--and that will answer the question from @siamhie about his favorites.

Not so much my thinking as my perhaps muddle-headed understanding of DO's post about revised tweak and how mxfb-styles is set up. Or has DO got a wonder filter to differentiate between mx themes and curated legacy themes when they're all located in in the same directory?

Posted: **Tue Apr 29, 2025 7:47 am**

Jerry3904 wrote: Tue Apr 29, 2025 5:55 am From here: https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 06#p807106.

I much prefer the shortened list here https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 68#p807368

Posted: **Tue Apr 29, 2025 8:11 am**

Melber wrote: Tue Apr 29, 2025 7:45 am
Jerry3904 wrote: Tue Apr 29, 2025 5:55 am @Melber I also see now that you were thinking we should point to the full list: /usr/share/fluxbox/styles/ Makes sense, will include next version--and that will answer the question from @siamhie about his favorites.
Not so much my thinking as my perhaps muddle-headed understanding of DO's post about revised tweak and how mxfb-styles is set up. Or has DO got a wonder filter to differentiate between mx themes and curated legacy themes when they're all located in in the same directory?

I don't need to differentiate. styles are styles and as long as they have different names there is no issue (and they do, if they are in the same directory). duplicate names are removed from tweak's list. styles are only sourced from one location, with the following order of preference in the case of multiple versions.

$HOME/.fluxbox/styles
/usr/share/mxflux/styles
/usr/share/fluxbox/styles

so if a style is in both /usr/share/mxflux and /usr/share/fluxbox, the /usr/share/mxflux style is the one used. or if a user as a style of the same name in $HOME, that will be used regardless of the other two directories.

Posted: **Tue Apr 29, 2025 8:42 am**

@dolphin_oracle
so by default tweak shows all styles in $HOME/.fluxbox/styles and /usr/share/mxflux/styles (regardless whether they're mx or legacy styles)?

and with checked checkbox tweak shows all (legacy) styles in /usr/share/fluxbox/styles?

Posted: **Tue Apr 29, 2025 8:58 am**

That last change hasn't happened yet, just pushing today the updated mxfb-styles @dolphin_oracle

Posted: **Tue Apr 29, 2025 11:53 am**

Melber wrote: Tue Apr 29, 2025 8:42 am @dolphin_oracle
so by default tweak shows all styles in $HOME/.fluxbox/styles and /usr/share/mxflux/styles (regardless whether they're mx or legacy styles)?

and with checked checkbox tweak shows all (legacy) styles in /usr/share/fluxbox/styles?

yes.

mx-tweak on bookworm actually searches all three locations as well, but does not present the checkbox to filter the old styles. I didn't want to change the behavior for existing users mid stream.

Posted: **Wed Apr 30, 2025 7:03 am**

Some final items for this thread:

1.@Melber and I have been discussing in camera the effect of DO's excellent new Tweak, and have concluded that there is now no need to include any of Tenner's traditional themes in the MX list, since a click in the box will show all of them.

2. @siamhie Could you please select one of the styles you listed and get it to me along with the entry for the attribution file as soon as convenient?

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Style name: 
Artist/Creator: 
Licence: 
URL/Source:

Thanks.

Posted: **Wed Apr 30, 2025 9:47 am**

Jerry3904 wrote: Wed Apr 30, 2025 7:03 am 2. @siamhie Could you please select one of the styles you listed and get it to me along with the entry for the attribution file as soon as convenient?
Code: Select all
Style name: 
Artist/Creator: 
Licence: 
URL/Source: 
Thanks.

@Jerry3904 I love the tron colors but there are 6 to choose from, so I will submit my next favorite style. peak_ocean

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#This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.
#(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en)

###############################################################################
#
# name: peak_ocean
# made: tenner
# date: 22-11-2005
# http://www.tenr.de 
#

Here's is the style I downloaded from tenr.de's web site. This has not been altered.

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╔═[siamhie@flux23]═[06:43 30/04/25]═[...stalls/500_Flux_Styles/all_tenrDE/peak_ocean]
╚═> ls -l
total 24
-rwxrwxrwx 1 siamhie siamhie 12412 Dec 15  2006 preview.jpg
-rwxrwxrwx 1 siamhie siamhie  4704 Jun  5  2010 theme.cfg

peak_ocean.tar

Posted: **Wed Apr 30, 2025 10:10 am**

Perfect, thanks muchly!

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