How to have some fun with matchbox.

As root run:
vi /etc/osso-af-init/matchbox.defs.

You will be presented with (this is also the default if you mess up):
What do these options do?

I will only go through the options that worked and the ones I have tried.

TITLEBAR:

• Default is yes
• Controls the bit with the title at the top

The only mod you can do is change it to no. What does that do?:


Change TITLEBAR=yes to TITLEBAR=no.


DIALOGMODE:

• Default is static
• Controls the movement of dialog boxes
• Accepted options are: free | static | const-horiz

This mod lets you move around the dialog boxes! You see when you press on a window bar, it goes transparent? Now you can drag them. This can be fun for rotation

Free Mode:


Yes, it has a little bug where some dialog boxes are placed in wrong position but it can be fixed by dragging like so:



Constant/Consistent Horizontal:



This works perfectly, dragging works, movement is free but it makes things longer. (yes, I try not to laugh)

Being dragged:


Change DIALOGMODE=static to DIALOGMODE=free or DIALOGMODE=const-horiz.

SUPERMODAL:

• Default is yes
• Controls whether supermodal dialog boxes (ones that make you give an answer to them before letting you do anything else) can take priority.
• Accepted options are: yes | no

Setting this to no will let you do other things while receiving a file over bluetooth for example



Change SUPERMODAL=yes to SUPERMODAL=no

I also have a thread on changing your device name too.

Some notes:

Changing DESKTOPMODE=plain to decorated is pointless but does something.
Changing LOWLIGHT=no to yes makes dialog boxes have a black 3d square thing. Not as cool as it sounds.
No idea about this one SHOWCURSOR=yes. (Yabbas says it may be for blinking text cursor.He was right about supermodal)
Leave MBTHEME=$DEFAULTMBTHEME as is. $DEFAULTMBTHEME is a variable pointing to your current theme set.

Thanks, I've only enabled the dialog moving feature, but it works well

Presumably showcursor enables/disables the blinking text cursor?

And supermodal enables/disables supermodal dialog boxes? [You know those dialogs that pop up, stay on top and don't let you click anywhere else until they disappear.]

Hehe, thanks, i'll disable it and see what happens (why cant I do anything when sending a file over bluetooth )

Yabbas, you are brilliant!

I can use my n800 while recieving a file over bluetooth. Time to update 1st post.

No, showcursor is related to the general conspiracy to stop mice from working.
See here for more info.

OK - I made it there... Now how to edit the file?

Be root. Use any of joe, sed, nano, vi, emacs... it's just a flat file.

Hey I'm new to this so tell me if i'm doing something wrong because i can't get thsi to work. I used nano to edit the file. Here is what it now looks like.
I saved the file over the original one but my windows are still fixed in one spot and bluetooth windows still keep me from doing anything else. Do you have to download a certain theme to use this hack? If anyone has any ideas let me know please. I am running diablo with the latest update.

You need to reboot to see the changes... perhaps that's what's wrong?