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Re: Crunchbang/Fluxbox

I'll let you know if I come across anything but I'm fairly pleased with this one.

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Re: Crunchbang/Fluxbox

Yeah it's not to bad and it's working quite well for be. But there's ways to improve.

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Re: Crunchbang/Fluxbox

Yay!!  I finally got Fluxbox WM working on the new #!Crunchbang 2011.11.25 release.

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Re: Crunchbang/Fluxbox

Ha, ha, thanks for the mention!  I think I just copied most of it from Corenominal's Openbox start script.

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Re: Crunchbang/Fluxbox

Need to give this thread a bump now that 2ManyDogs has his awesome 30 Window Managers thread going. Using Fluxbox on Debian Testing with windows maximized, grouped and tabbed by default.

Need the following line in the ~/.fluxbox/init file:

session.screen0.defaultDeco:    TAB

to set windows as tabbed by default without window decorations. Use key bindings to close windows, switch through tabs, windows etc .. I put the tabs on the left just for something different.

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Re: Crunchbang/Fluxbox

Just installed #! 10 this week and I am using Fluxbox as my window manager.
Here is what my setup looks like.
http://tnypic.net/465bc.png
I am glad to see there are other people who like fluxbox here.

Last edited by arclance (2012-03-31 00:38:24)

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Re: Crunchbang/Fluxbox

arclance wrote:

Just installed #! 10 this and I am using Fluxbox as my window manager.
Here is what my setup looks like.
http://tnypic.net/465bc.png
I am glad to see there are other people who like fluxbox here.

Wish I had that much desktop real estate! I used Fluxbox with my previous ubuntu setup, but personally I prefer openbox

A suggestion - you could tweak the colours in the conky graphs to echo the richly colored sandstone outcrops on the left of the pic?

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Re: Crunchbang/Fluxbox

Fluxbox lover right here!

Linux brony who lives fluxbox/openbox and enlightenment.
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Re: Crunchbang/Fluxbox

While I love Openbox and what the #!Crunchbang Dev has done with, both Debian and Openbox ... I must say that I am a Fluxbox aficionado.

Been using #!Crunchbang, Debian and Openbox for years, until recently ...
I have found Fluxbox WM to be easier to use and configure/customize that Openbox is.

I run the http://LostintheBox.com Forum (Blackbox/Fluxbox)  Come on over for a visit, if you like what you see - join us there, too.
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Re: Crunchbang/Fluxbox

damo wrote:

Wish I had that much desktop real estate! I used Fluxbox with my previous ubuntu setup, but personally I prefer openbox

A suggestion - you could tweak the colours in the conky graphs to echo the richly colored sandstone outcrops on the left of the pic?

Yes I really like the dual monitor setup, it is very useful for photo editing and programing since you can toss a refernce or toolbox onto the second monitor.

Changing the colors is not so simple since I am using a background randomizer script I wrote for use with Fluxbox that changes the color and opacity of the conky background along with the desktop background.
I have sucessfully tested having that script also change the color of the conky text without editing the .conkyrc (so it does not reset the graphs) but I never wrote the part that changes the graphs colors as well.
I abandonded dynamic font colors because it would have been a pain to pick colors for each background and that my terminal font color and conky font color would not match anymore.

It also almost doubled conkys cpu usage with is not ideal.

vrkalak wrote:

While I love Openbox and what the #!Crunchbang Dev has done with, both Debian and Openbox ... I must say that I am a Fluxbox aficionado.

Been using #!Crunchbang, Debian and Openbox for years, until recently ...
I have found Fluxbox WM to be easier to use and configure/customize that Openbox is.

I run the http://LostintheBox.com Forum (Blackbox/Fluxbox)  Come on over for a visit, if you like what you see - join us there, too.
You can find my Openbox/Fluxbox screenshots all over DeviantArt  >  http://vrkalak.deviantart.com

I agree with you about Openbox. 
I did not install Fluxbox until I was sure I had my hardware working correctely and used Openbox until then.
I found that I did not like Openbox as much as Fluxbox but I did like it more than Gnome/KDE/ect.

I will take a look at Lost In The Box and post my screenshot there if I like what I see.

vrkalak wrote:

I am, also, a new Debian-Maintainer - Fluxbox Team.

That must be why I did not have to build the new version of Fluxbox myself!

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Re: Crunchbang/Fluxbox

vrkalak wrote:

While I love Openbox and what the #!Crunchbang Dev has done with, both Debian and Openbox ... I must say that I am a Fluxbox aficionado.

Been using #!Crunchbang, Debian and Openbox for years, until recently ...
I have found Fluxbox WM to be easier to use and configure/customize that Openbox is.

When will the world understand?  As far as I know there is no distro that has Fluxbox as the main window manager...AntiX but I think, last time I checked the default was IceWm...Grml?

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Re: Crunchbang/Fluxbox

^ yep, grml... http://grml.org/faq

which window managers can I use?
Starting with the 2011.12 release Grml provides Fluxbox as window manager.

and gparted live uses fluxbox, but that's not really a distro...

i'm a little partial to blackbox, myself...

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Re: Crunchbang/Fluxbox

Oops, please delete this if you have time.

Last edited by ElderV.LaCoste (2012-04-19 02:50:30)

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Re: Crunchbang/Fluxbox

Antix Base has Fluxbox as it's WM - the main edition has IceWm as the default.

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Re: Crunchbang/Fluxbox

Unia wrote:
snowpine wrote:

That's a nice theme, very Crunchbangy!
I was a Fluxbox user (via the now-extinct Fluxbuntu) before I discovered #!. I remember it fondly. smile

What about the now existing Linux Mint Fluxbox?

Or a custom Ubuntu install with Fluxbox as the WM?

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Re: Crunchbang/Fluxbox

vrkalak wrote:

While I love Openbox and what the #!Crunchbang Dev has done with, both Debian and Openbox ... I must say that I am a Fluxbox aficionado.

Been using #!Crunchbang, Debian and Openbox for years, until recently ...
I have found Fluxbox WM to be easier to use and configure/customize that Openbox is.

I run the http://LostintheBox.com Forum (Blackbox/Fluxbox)  Come on over for a visit, if you like what you see - join us there, too.
You can find my Openbox/Fluxbox screenshots all over DeviantArt  >  http://vrkalak.deviantart.com

I am, also, a new Debian-Maintainer - Fluxbox Team.

You are?  Gee with you there and Elder and alcance (what a setup - 8 cores and the Grand Canyon for a monitor), I'll have to look at Flux again.  I know Elder almost had a stroke when I took it for a test drive once.  big_smile

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Re: Crunchbang/Fluxbox

What about the now existing Linux Mint Fluxbox?

LinuxMint-9 Fluxbox Edition is the current LTS version of Mint.

The next LTS version of Mint is due sometime in May 2012.

With the advent of LMDE (Mint-Debian) the Devs decided to move some editions to having a Debian-base and leave some with Mint Main Ubuntu-base.
Fluxbox was one of those switching to being Debian-based.

As a Moderator with Mint - we were talking (a couple months ago) and it seems that Clem (Mint's Founder) may be dropping some editions, in favor of not spreading the small Staff of Devs and Testers to thinly.  I can see his point - besides building and testing, there comes 'maintaining' a distro, repros and packages.

We'll see what the next few months brings for Mint and LMDE in regards to Fluxbox and perhaps an Openbox edition?

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#!Crunchbang 'Statler' (Openbox) -- LinuxMint-Debian-Fluxbox Edition
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Re: Crunchbang/Fluxbox

Sector11 wrote:

You are?  Gee with you there and Elder and alcance (what a setup - 8 cores and the Grand Canyon for a monitor), I'll have to look at Flux again.  I know Elder almost had a stroke when I took it for a test drive once.  big_smile

I hope you do take it out for a spin again.  I'll try to be calmer this time lol! 

I forgot about Livarp!  He has a stand alone Fluxbox/Debian edition!  I'm driving it around now and it is real smooth.

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Re: Crunchbang/Fluxbox

ElderV.LaCoste wrote:

I hope you do take it out for a spin again.  I'll try to be calmer this time lol! 

I forgot about Livarp!  He has a stand alone Fluxbox/Debian edition!  I'm driving it around now and it is real smooth.

Got a link for me? never mind: Livarp

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