vinzv / bunsen-beam-hidpi

HiDPI theme for Bunsenlabs Helium

Bunsenlabs Beam-HiDPI

Bunsenlabs "Helium" theme adapted for HiDPI / 4K / reasonable resolutions. Credits for most of the work go to the Bunsenlabs team and Ochosi from Shimmerproject.

Things included

1. Gtk2
2. Gtk3
3. Openbox
4. xfce4-notify
5. tint2
6. conky

Installation

1. Copy the folder Beam-HiDPI either to your home folder at ~/.themes/ or (for system-wide use) to /usr/share/themes/. The latter is recommended if you want to use the theme with LightDM but needs root privileges for installation. Afterwards select the theme both at:
   • Preferences -> Appearance -> Window
   • Preferences -> Openbox -> GUI Config Tool -> Theme
2. Import file tint2rc-hidpi via Preferences -> Tint2 -> Edit Tint2s -> Tint2 Config GUI and activate it there.
3. Copy file BL-HiDPI.conkyrc to your home folder and place it at ~/.config/conky/. The tool at Preferences -> Conky -> Conky Chooser lets you select it now.

Manual tweaks needed

Add these two lines to ~/.Xresources and re-login or run xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources to activate. For Xft.dpi uncommenting and adjusting line 7 is fine, too. Just remove the leading ! and replace 96 by 160.

Xft.dpi: 160
Xcursor.size: 48

I found these values giving the best results but depending on your screen's resolution ymmv. Adjust them to your preferences.

What I've done

Gtk2/3 theme

I backported recent HiDPI tweaks from Greybird and resized various elements like toolbar buttons, checkboxes and radio buttons.

Openbox

I resized and manually redrawed the window buttons.

tint2

Set the following values:

• Panel: height 48
• Task Buttons: Max width/height 45, padding 4, spacing 4
• Tray: padding horizontal 8, vertical 4, spacing 6, icon size
• Clock: font size 16
• Tooltip: padding 4, font size 16

conky

Set the following values:

• minimum_width: 400
• maximum_width: 500
• gap_x: 100
• gap_y: 110

Done / To do

• Gtk Theme
• Openbox
• tint2
• conky
• LightDM Gtk greeter window does not scale
• PNmixer tray icon does not scale