Theme details for EasyOS 3.4

Early this morning I announced the release of EasyOS 3.4, with radical icon-free desktop. Well, radical for the mainstream EasyOS/Quirky/Puppy releases anyway. Here is the blog post:

https://bkhome.org/news/202202/easyos-version-34-released.html

A snapshot:

I have posted details about earlier themes:

https://bkhome.org/news/202202/theme-in-easyos-33.html

For Easy 3.4, the file /root/.packages/default-theme is this:

#3buildeasydistro will read this, when building EasyOS.
#gtk, jwm, wallpaper: names of pet pkgs, which may actually have more than one
# theme inside, hence the : separator with actual theme name.
DEFAULT_THEME_GTK2='gtk_theme_peachy_darkbrown:peachy-darkbrown'
DEFAULT_THEME_GTK3=''
DEFAULT_THEME_JWM='jwm3_theme_peachy-darkbrown:peachy-darkbrown'
DEFAULT_THEME_WALLPAPER='desk_background_sunset-blood-red-orange:sunset-blood-red-orange.jpg'
DEFAULT_THEME_DESK_ICONS='desk_icon_theme_multicolor_marble2:Multi-color-Marble2'
DEFAULT_THEME_ROX_TEXT_FOREGROUND='#FFFFF3F3DADA' #white, brown tinge
DEFAULT_THEME_ROX_TEXT_SHADOW='0' #0=none
DEFAULT_THEME_ROX_TEXT_FONT='Open Sans Semi-Bold 11'
DEFAULT_THEME_XORG_TEXT_DPI=102
DEFAULT_COLOR_JWM_XLOAD='-bg "#ff9d63" -fg "#c00000" -hl white'

If the blood-red-orange-yellow sunset is too much of an assault on your eyes, find us a nice soothing brown-themed nature wallpaper. Or, if you prefer the light-blue theme of Easy 3.3, go to the above link and install the PET packages referenced in the 'default-theme' file.

The ROX-Filer parameters shown above are self-explanatory, except for DEFAULT_THEME_ROX_TEXT_FOREGROUND='#FFFFF3F3DADA', which actually means a colour of "#FFF3DA".

To set ROX-Filer font preferences, click on "files" in the tray (or icon on desktop) and right-click in a clear area of the window and choose "Options...".

Screen DPI (Dots Per Inch) can be set via the menu "Desktop -> Set global font size".

The colours for 'xload', the little CPU-usage graph shown near the right side of the tray, can be set by editing /root/.jwmrc-tray. Version 3.4 does not have a GUI for editing JWM settings -- earlier we did have JWMDesk, created by Roger (radky on the forum); however, changes in the layout of /root/.jwmrc-tray have broken it. I do expect to have a functioning GUI again sometime.  

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