Flubox keys tutorial
If you are a fluxbox user, don't like automounting, like speeding up tasks, don't like giving users acces to devices or drives unless they are specified in sudoers.......
The ~/.fluxbox/keys allows you to map keyboard buttons to actions. Whether it's launcing applications, mounting drives, etc. That's up to you. Here are some addtions to your ~/.fluxbox/keys config file that will make working with usb drives, opening applications, showing the desktop, getting the root menu without a mouse, restarting a moused after it dying after a sleep etc. that can be handy. Edit as you see fit. Use your own paths, interfaces, and devices. Some users also are on older machines and don't want to run heavy DE's. Fluxbox is good for PII and PIII machines even. This will make Flux mount and open easily. Some of these are FreeBSD specific. Use Linux sytax, device nodes, and paths if you use Linux. Xterm is in all ditros and BSD's. Code:
# my additions Code:
#!/bin/sh |
Nice keybindings! The only thing that I'd need to adjust (in my opinion) is the keys for mounting drives and managing power states (shutdown, suspend, etc). I don't really use Fluxbox anymore, but the same keybindings could potentially be applied to nearly any other window manager that supports defining custom keybindings. I also agree that running a full DE could be problematic.
One my HP Mini, I use Xfce and Echinus (tiling WM, partially EWMH compliant), but this is only because I am in college and don't really have that much time to mess around with scripting my environment using dzen, conky, and whatever I can think of for a system tray. |
One of the features I've come to like most about Fluxbox is the keybindings.
I learned how to do them from a podcast by Klaatu. I think it was episode 5x03 at this link. It's a nice audio tutorial. |
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