I wanted to share the idea that JWM can be themed by editing the system.jwmrc file. JWM is a very good window manager for legacy or limited resource boxes like mine but I just didn't like the default theme and wanted something Vectorish for my desktop.
Here are a pair of screenshots to demo the theme:
http://www.geocities.com/jmculv/smoothcoolvl.jpgand
http://www.geocities.com/jmculv/smoothcoolvl1.jpgNote that I have a functional xfdesktop working with JWM (along with all the nifty icons that make Thunar look so good). I will post a how to on that in this same category.
I changed the height from 36 to 30 in order to properly display the menu and show desktop buttons. The menu height was changed to 20. I then set the gtk/gtk2 themes to "smooth cool" and edited the visual styles section of the system.jwmrc as follows:
<!-- Visual Styles -->
<WindowStyle>
<Font>FreeSans-9:bold</Font>
<Width>4</Width>
<Height>20</Height>
<Active>
<Text>white</Text>
<Title>#007abd</Title>
<Corner>white</Corner>
<Outline>black</Outline>
</Active>
<Inactive>
<Text>#007abd</Text>
<Title>#c6c9cf</Title>
<Corner>#aaaaaa</Corner>
<Outline>black</Outline>
</Inactive>
</WindowStyle>
<TaskListStyle>
<Font>FreeSans-12:bold</Font>
<ActiveForeground>#007abd</ActiveForeground>
<ActiveBackground>#c6c9cf</ActiveBackground>
<Foreground>#007abd</Foreground>
<Background>gray70:gray90</Background>
</TaskListStyle>
<!-- Additional TrayStyle attribute: insert -->
<TrayStyle>
<Font>FreeSans-12:bold</Font>
<Background>#c6c9cf:gray90</Background>
<Foreground>#007abd</Foreground>
</TrayStyle>
<PagerStyle>
<Outline>black</Outline>
<Foreground>gray90</Foreground>
<Background>#808488</Background>
<ActiveForeground>#007abd</ActiveForeground>
<ActiveBackground>#2e3a67</ActiveBackground>
</PagerStyle>
<MenuStyle>
<Font>FreeSans-10</Font>
<Foreground>white</Foreground>
<Background>#007abd</Background>
<ActiveForeground>#007abd</ActiveForeground>
<ActiveBackground>#c6c9cf</ActiveBackground>
</MenuStyle>
<PopupStyle>
<Font>FreeSans-10</Font>
<Outline>black</Outline>
<Foreground>white</Foreground>
<Background>#007abd</Background>
</PopupStyle>
The icons for the start button and show desktop button I scavenged from some taskbar images for icewm themes created for VL 5.1 standard. The system.jwmrc may be freely edited to create a variety of color styles.
The buttons images can be found here:
http://www.geocities.com/jmculv/desktop.pngand
http://www.geocities.com/jmculv/linux.pngedit the system.jwmrc in the following manner to add these images to the taskbar:
<!-- Additional tray attributes: autohide, width, border, layer, layout -->
<Tray x="0" y="-1" height="32">
<!-- Additional TrayButton attribute: label -->
<TrayButton label="" icon="~path/linux.png">root:1</TrayButton>
<TrayButton label="" icon="~path/desktop.png">showdesktop</TrayButton>
You just have to fill in the pathname to the folder that contain the saved images.
I had fun with it and just wanted to share.