OK I don't really have a good title yet but I figure I can post works in progress and other tips I've come across or other interesting things.

Fluxbox - Terminal Window PC Game Style

Posted 08-22-2009 at 02:26 AM by lumak
Updated 08-27-2009 at 09:13 PM by lumak

Tags fluxbox, fps terminal

MOVED: I added this to the fluxbox wiki under "Category:Configuration howtos" Any changes may go on either. Enjoy.

Warning. I tried this on my much older 32 bit laptop and it didn't respond that quickly to toggling the consoles. I'm guessing that long bit of code for the key command actually takes more processing than I thought.

OK I realized I could make xterm (any terminal?) act like the command console in a FPS game. So here are all the settings to do that.

edit ~/.fluxbox/apps

Code:

# Group all xterms into tabs
[group]
 [app] (name=xterm) (class=XTerm)
  # edit to your screen size
  [Dimensions]  {1280 491}

  # I like it here.
  [Position] (TOPLEFT) {0 0}

  # Why not?
  [Alpha]   {190}

  # available on all work spaces regardless of Iconify
  [Sticky]  {yes}

  # optional - do not use [Hidden] or [FocusHidden]
  [IconHidden]  {yes}

  # set to be on top of everything
  [Layer] {2}

  # display only a tab and a border regardless of
  # window manager settings.  This looks nicer than
  # with all the window decorations.
  [Deco] {516}
[end]

edit ~/.fluxbox/keys

Code:

# (name!=xterm) prevents xterm from being included
# in the alt-tab cycle
# alt-tab
Mod1 Tab :NextWindow {groups} (name!=xterm)
Mod1 Shift Tab :PrevWindow {groups} (name!=xterm)


# Toggle xterms
# Control (tilde key):
# If there are xterms open then switch between showing
# them and hiding them.  If there are not any open, then
# open one up.

# all one line
Control 49 : If {Some Matches (xterm)}   {ToggleCmd {NextGroup (name=xterm)} {MacroCmd {NextGroup (name=xterm)} {Delay {Iconify} 1}}}    {Exec xterm}

edit ~/.fluxbox/init
# add/replace as needed or use menu options to select tab placement.

Code:

session.screen0.tab.placement: BottomLeft

If you want to have the label on the tabs of the xterms numbered (purely aesthetics) then you can use the attached script. Instead of executing xterm with all your hot keys and menu options, you would want to execute this script. It's in the public domain and comes with no warranty.

Fluxbox - Terminal Window PC Game Style

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