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openbox doesn't have its own bar; typically, if you see a bar at the top of your screen, then it's a separate program like tint2, polybar, lemonbar, etc.
Assuming you're using tint2, you can run tint2conf to change the settings via a GUI.
You can also see the docs' notes on configuring battery info here.
On the bottom we have tint2 panel. https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2 On the top is conky. you can use this one - http://rent0n86.deviantart.com/art/My-horizontal-conkyrc-122604863 I think terminal emulator is rxvt-unicode. File manager PCmanFm, Thunar - pick which one you like. Several GUI applications are available to quickly and easily configure your Openbox desktop: LXAppearance, ObConf, obkey.
Thanks for the ping.
I prefer xfce4-panel over tint2, but my understanding is that the GUI doesn't have every option available. Manually editing the config file allows all options to be customized. Config options...
Not to make you change things, if you are now happy. But there are options like tint2 that you might consider as well as plank. See: https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2/-/wikis/home
If you mean the configuration from scratch, then the git wiki pages of the appropriate bars, for example the tint2 configuration wiki can be found here: https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2/blob/master/doc/tint2.md#configuration
according to the tint2 docs there is an option for taskbar_mode called multi_desktop.
otherwise other bars have this functionality, or you can roll you own for dmenu or dzen or whatever.
personally i like a rofi/dmenu solution and avoid bars (they are usually mouse dependent anyway)
So it turns out <code>tint2</code> can't be set such that it is unhidden on key(-combo) press/hold, whereas it seems to be possible with <code>xfce4-panel</code>, so I'll try that instead. I just hope the latter is as configurable as the former otherwise.
The icon theme is read by tint2 and other programs from the xsettings daemon (if there is one running). There is a program called dump_xsettings (from the xsettingsd package in Debian/Ubuntu) which connects to the daemon and prints the x settings values to the terminal. What you're looking for is "Net/IconThemeName".
Alternatively you can set it with launcher_icon_theme as the tint2 documentation says (maybe also set launcher_icon_theme_override to 1). But this will set only the theme for launcher icons, not the taskbar. Taskbar icons are provided by Openbox and tint2 has no way to change them.
I suggest figuring out why the icon theme is misconfigured desktop-wide instead of overriding it in each program.
I've not got tint2 installed atm to test this with, or if it's even close to a sane way to go about doing things, but it's something.
There is an option to change the # of times an application that is urgent will blink to get your attention (urgent_nb_of_blink).
I wonder if setting that to 0 would work.