¬ just serendipity 🍀 (not just serendipity)

I’ve been loving doing this. It’s really a nice way to maintain an intensive practice. But today was a very limited day for me. I had only half an hour to make any further progress. But even a little progress is better than nothing, right? Previously.

Compositing and visual effects #

I’ve installed xcompmgr from the official repos to enable a few compositing effects on my desktop. I don’t care much for that, though, but it’s a simple way to enable some transparency and fading. Guake and Plank are the most noticing applications from xcompmgr effects. I’ve added this line to my autostart file: xcompmgr -cf CF -t-5 -l-5 -r4.2 -o.55 &

Logout menu and screen lock #

I’ve also checked out a program called oblogout. This does what you think it does… it’s a logout menu, with several options nicely displayed in a GUI: shutdown, lock, hibernate etc. The default “lock” behavior was to call xtrlock. But I don’t have this program. I already use slock. So, I went to /etc/oblogout.conf and replaced the appropriate line. This would be a good program to assign to a custom hotkey (later).

Menu icons and utilities #

I’ve also tried to add icons to the openbox menu. It seems that menumaker doesn’t support this feature. So I should’ve searched for a menu generation tool with icons, but I didn’t, not today. I’ve found another menu generation utility called obmenu-generator (in the AUR). With the command obmenu-generator -p -i, I’ve added the pipe menu entry to my original menu.xml.

One good program is lxappearance-obconf. I’ve talked about lxappearance before. But this -obconf suffix adds more functionality to it, exposing some of the openbox configs. It is simple but nice.

That’s it for today. I feel I need hotkeys now. Git repo updated again. Thank you for reading.