Why do these apps look so ugly on openbox

[iwantmylinux]

Hi everyone,
I have set up my openbox. It's fine for the most part, but some apps just look plain ugly.

I have the Cinnamon edition of Mint
What can I do to fix this?
It looks bad in vs code and opera

The menu look fine on firefox though

Anything I can do about this?

Thank you

[ajgreeny]

Have you tried changing the openbox configuration or preferences used?

I am using Debian-10-Testing on an old netbook with Atom 270N CPU with 1G ram and that uses openbox as window manager; it looks absolutely fine to me though I do not have the applications that you are saying look ugly to test.

[AndyMH]

Some applications do not follow the theme, evince (pdf reader) is one, epiphany browser is another. There may be settings in the preferences for each application that tell it to use the theme. Why using openbox in mint and not the default muffin?

[Moonstone Man]

I have set up my openbox. It's fine for the most part...

And it will stay that way. It's beyond me why people insist on taking the carburetor out of a Porsche and tossing in a carburetor off a Trabant and then expect it to work, but there you are. When you do this kind of thing, you're basically on your own, and you are expected to be knowledgeable enough to sort your own problems out. If you want openbox, install a distro that comes with it.

[iwantmylinux]

I have set up my openbox. It's fine for the most part...

And it will stay that way. It's beyond me why people insist on taking the carburetor out of a Porsche and tossing in a carburetor off a Trabant and then expect it to work, but there you are. When you do this kind of thing, you're basically on your own, and you are expected to be knowledgeable enough to sort your own problems out. If you want openbox, install a distro that comes with it.

Would you mind pointing me to the right direction to become knowledgeable enough then?
I did find some post suggesting this is about gtk theme and the gnome-settings-daemon. I didn't include it in the post because I didn't want to assume anything.

And the gnome-settings-daemon appears to work differently now, and I can't figure out how to start it.

[Moonstone Man]

Would you mind pointing me to the right direction to become knowledgeable enough then?

Knowledge comes with experience, and your question implies that someone other than yourself is aware of what you aren't knowledgeable in. I can't read minds, so the only thing that can be said is research, experiment, and practice.

[absque fenestris]

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I recommend SliTaz.
You can even start it from floppy disks.
Wonderful retro feeling.

Features
SliTaz uses the Openbox window manager.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SliTaz ...... http://slitaz.org/en

[Flemur]

The menu look fine on firefox though

Different fonts.

You should have some config files in ~/.config/openbox/*.xml

I run fluxbox installed on a Mint or Ubuntu base; you get the same "light" result as installing a specialized distro, but it's easier. Do an internet search on openbox settings.

[AndyMH]

If you haven't, install obconf. You can manually edit the settings in $HOME/.config/openbox/rc.xml.

[Hoser Rob]

It's going to look uglier than Cinnamon if you're using a tiling WM, you can't have it both ways.

[iwantmylinux]

The menu look fine on firefox though

Different fonts.

You should have some config files in ~/.config/openbox/*.xml

I run fluxbox installed on a Mint or Ubuntu base; you get the same "light" result as installing a specialized distro, but it's easier. Do an internet search on openbox settings.

My suspicion is that the fonts in the openbox/*.xml files aren't being applied to these guys.
I believe the one from the good screnshots do use the font that I have defined through obconf