While I can see how to use the colorizer to tell OpenBox, Conky, & the menus & panels to pull colors from the background individually (Left Panel > Conky Manager > Color schemes, for one), but i cannot find where to make this adjustment for all at once. I’d prefer to be able to turn on auto-theming so I can automatically change the wallpaper and have the conkies/panels follow suit and automatically pull their colors from the new wallpaper, but I cannot find the setting. I do see an auto-theme option in the video about colorizer from 2022 on the Mabox www site (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h50oeS7aFyM&ab_channel=MaboxLinux). Was this option depreciated? Or moved elsewhere, perhaps? Many thanks in advance, and I searched the forum prior to posting, so I hope this was not covered elsewhere and I somehow missed it.
OS: MaboxLinux 25.07 Istredd, Kernel: x86_64 Linux 6.12.34-1-MANJARO
Yes, the autotheming functionality was removed some time ago.
The reason for the removal was that sometimes - when using wallpapers with one or two colors - the generated Openbox Window Decoration, Menu and Conky themes were unreadable.
I’m figuring out how to restore it in a more secure way.
Maybe as an optional configurable hook (bash script) after changing the wallpaper.
Also showing notification with button to restore default - readable themes might be handy.
You’re fantastic. I haven’t seen this much passion from a developer since I emailed back and forth with Ken Silverman [BUILD Engine] in '97 about Duke3D. I’ll try these this weekend as soon as I have a chance. Thank you, man. Really. And I have to toss in that the VM side panel menu was completely unexpected but is one of my favorite features.
This solves the main issue I was contending with, thank you!!! On manual change, the theme elements update automatically based on preference, (the Conky dark menu under Auto Theme says ‘DARK_BG’, by the way, but I cannot get a screenshot of it). I absolutely love it.
This comes up each time the wallpaper is changed or set, though, and stays for as long as notifications are set to:
Also, when the wallpaper slideshow is enabled, theme elements do not update. Please be aware I’m not criticizing in the least! I’m super thankful that you even replied to my initial question! I’ll keep testing and report back any other findings. Thank you AGAIN!
I have one more really important thing to test at the moment.
Rewriten nitrogen wrapper, which uses feh instead of nitrogen for set/change wallpaper.
If you have time, please download it and try it.
UPDATE! - fixing wrong command below
cd ~/bin/
wget https://repo.maboxlinux.org/testing/x86_64/nitrogen
chmod +x ~/bin/nitrogen
Please see if changing wallpaper works as it should after that. I tested this already on my 2 machines and VM. Seems ok.
I should have picked up on that. I’m an old DOS guy just now leaning into Linux as a daily driver.
That works like a charm and the auto-theming (at least on the conkys) appears to be faster than it was previously. Of course, I could also be nuts. And hello to the 40-something people watching this exciting exchange.
