070708 - Fluxbox 1.0RC3 custom

[easuter]

At long last a Fluxbox package is available in the testing repo, that works out-of-the-box and provides customized menus for both 5.8 Standard and SOHO (the menus are installed according to the contents of /etc/vector-version). A cool theme was also set by default 

Source: http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-5.8/source/testing/x-apps/fluxbox/
Package: http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-5.8/testing/x-apps/fluxbox-1.0rc3-i586-1vl58.tlz

Code:

fluxbox: Fluxbox  - lightweight and customizable window manager
fluxbox:
fluxbox: Fluxbox is yet another windowmanager for X. Tt's based
fluxbox: on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. Fluxbox looks like blackbox
fluxbox: and handles styles, colors, window placement and similar
fluxbox: thing exactly like blackbox (100% theme/style compability).
fluxbox:
fluxbox: Website: http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/
fluxbox: License: Read - /usr/doc/fluxbox-1.0rc3/COPYING

Thanks to Joe1962 for info on adding the fluxbox configs for pre-existing users, and to lagagnon for helping test intermediate builds.

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[rbistolfi]

Thanks Easuter! This is one of my favourites!

EDIT:  May be I need to wait for the sync on the mirrors, I get 404 on that link   

[easuter]

It is working now...once again, just need to wait a while sometimes

[Colonel Panic]

Thanks for that, I'll give it a go soon. Fluxbox is one of my favourite WMs along with IceWM.

Just one thing though, 7 MB+ for a Flux file; what else is there in it to make that big?

[easuter]

Yeah, I included quite a few extra wallpapers, since fluxbox has the option to set random wallpapers on startup.
Those can be removed if necessary!

[exeterdad]

Very cool!  Fluxbox has always been one of my favorites.  I'm impressed that you guys made it preconfigured for users that might have a bit of trouble.  I'll have to give it a go soon.

[retired1af]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm.... Installed yesterday and thought I'd give it a whirl this morning.. First attempt at starting the system using Fluxbox resulted in being sent right back to the login screen. Second attempt resulted in logging in to KDE, even though Fluxbox was selected.

Edit -- Strange... Logged out and attempted again. It worked this time. **scratching head**

[Colonel Panic]

Yeah, I included quite a few extra wallpapers, since fluxbox has the option to set random wallpapers on startup.
Those can be removed if necessary!

Yes it has, fbsetbg -r and then the directory.

Someone's also written a script to change wallpapers at random from a directory after a given period of time, using feh;

http://myrddin.org/2006/12/16/random-wallpaper-script/

Btw, I've got the "icebergs" wallpaper up at the moment with the NVA-91 style, very cool.

[easuter]

Cool. However since Esetroot was included with VL 5.8 Standard, thats what fluxbox uses by default (unless you install feh yourself).

The Magic-X and the NVA-91 themes are my favourites

[rbistolfi]

Working nice here too! Ligth, simple, and looks nice. A great desktop. Thanks!

[Colonel Panic]

Is this package still available? I had a look in the repo but couldn't find it.

Thanks in advance,

Colonel Panic.

[easuter]

Yes, but its already in the extra/ repository:

http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-5.8/extra/x-apps/fluxbox-1.0rc3-i586-1vl58.tlz

[Colonel Panic]

Thanks, I've downloaded it now.

Regards,

Colonel Panic.

[hata_ph]

just install fluxbox and still getting use to it.....
there is 1 small problem, that is the fluxbox menu did not contain all the .desktop that show in my xfce4 menu...I need to manually edit the menu file in .fluxbox.......is there a way to auto detect the .desktop file inside the /usr/share/applications folder?

[lagagnon]

Fluxbox, like all other lightweight window managers, is only a window manager and not a desktop environment. Hence it does not "automatically" associate its menu with .desktop files. It does supply a command "fluxbox-generate-menu", which you can use, but it is not very robust at picking up all the apps you have. The better program IMHO is menmaker ( http://menumaker.sourceforge.net/ ). It is very good at picking up most apps.

If you are using SOHO I have hand made a reasonably good menu for Fluxbox that you can download from here: http://www.freewebs.com/lagagnon/fluxbox_menu.txt

The other option is just to edit ~/.fluxbox/menu yourself - it is very straightforward.