Pfft, don't *find* a theme, *make* one! I did, GKrellM blends in to my desktop perfectly now!

(You might also like to take a look at Torsmo, depending on what you use GKrellM for, btw. . . )

Don't feel dumb ;-) And check out http://themes.freshmeat.net for themes. Themes for any of the *boxes will work, however you will probably need to manually edit each associated style file in the way you did before to make sure the wallpaper points to the right location (usually ~/.fluxbox/backgrounds) and that you have fbsetbg rather esetroot or whatever else might be used within the style to display the background image (since you already know fbsetbg works).

Enjoy!

In your ~/.fluxbox/init file, the line that controls the background is the one that says rootCommand at the end. The same line in my init file looks like this:This tells fluxbox to reuse whatever wallpaper you set the last time you were using fluxbox.

The thing with the icons along the bottom of the screen in the Enlightenment screenshot is a program called Engage, which you can actually use with any WM, though it is being developed along with the new Enlightenment desktop shell (that's what they're calling it -- it sort of falls between a plain window manager and a big desktop environment). Oh, the version in the screenshot is the older Enlightenment. Both are available as ebuilds with Gentoo.

There is a lot of information (including how to install both versions of Enlightenment through portage) on the new Enlightenment at Get-E.org.

Yes the crystal theme is cool i didn't know there was a 3d one all the more reason for me to figure out how to install a 3d driver for my debian install, this is for
archlyn
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/8...apshot55cb.jpg

Check out also the ksmoothdock at the bottom for an OSX look.
I have come to realize that people on this form like it spartan or seem to so i did not post an image, but I wounder if there would be enough interest for a desktop thread for all to post an image or link to an image of thier latest desktop and kde or gnome theme. Just a thought forgive me if it already exists.

@ misunderstruck:

I looked into engage, and sadly, it won't work for what I want to use it unless I use Enlightenment. Now I don't mind that but the CVS builds of enlightenment are extremely unstable on my system. I guess I'll just have to wait for the new version.

In the mean time however, do you have any reccomendations on anything else I might be able to use as a replacement for a quicklaunch bar?

ATM I'm using gkrellm-launch, and it works fine, but I'd like something more eyecandyish.

Check out BBDock: http://bbdock.nethence.com/

It says it is designed for Blackbox but it should work fine with Fluxbox.

Oh yeah, and you can get those nifty glass-globe-ish icons here:

http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/icons.xml

I looked at BBBox.

Unfortunately, it seems to mangle a few of my icons. I don't know how to describe it, but I'll post a pic later if anyone thinks they can help.

I also found a few other similar projects to BBBox, but none of them work very well or refuse to install.

Who thought an application launcher could be so diffacult?

Is it possible to configure the fluxbox slits so that, say, GKrellm can be on one part of the screen (upper right corner for example) and another item in the slit can be in a different place (ie having an application launcher at the bottom of the screen)?

Or maybe having more than one slit?

Yeah, I tried it out as well and it did alright with most of the icons, but my Thunderbird icon got stretched out in a very odd fashion, and what bits of it were visible were all thin red lines. Odd indeed!

As of now, you can't have more than one slit in Fluxbox. I remember seeing someone posting that in another forum on a wishlist for future Fluxbox features -- it would be a neat idea. Why don't you run Gkrellm by itself (put "gkrelmm &" in your ~/.fluxbox/startup file instead of "gkrellm -w &"), position it where you want it, and then set up your slit and its dockapps in a separate place?

Here's a shot of my Fluxbox setup. I have Gkrellm2 with the "invisible" theme (plus the XMMS, volume, and screenshot plugins), the Fluxter pager running in the slit at the bottom right, a transparent Eterm open, and everything else iconified:
http://www.kungfushrimp.com/fbperipheralshot.png

I actually don't use an launch bar in Fluxbox -- only in Enlightenment. I've set up a number of keybindings for launching programs I use most frequently, and the rest I get from the menu.

Launchers are a dime a dozen these days, gee Macs are soo cool

gDesklets has the Starterbar display which is that, adesklets has yab and modubar which does that. There is engage, I don't care what you say, you don't need to be running enlightenment to use it. You'd need to be running enlightenment to use the module version but the stand alone will run fine whenever you like. There are also kooldock, ksmoothdock and kxdocker. Any of these will work for you, the gDesklets one and any of the k* ones will have nice GUIs to get them setup and launchers added.

As oneandoneis2 said, have a look at torsmo. It's nice and simple and just splats some text and percentage bars on the background, which is good if that's what you're looking for (was perfect for me).

But I want to use it as a launcher, and to do that you have to run the module version. The standalone version allows you only to use it as a taskbar.

As far as the other launchers go:

Why don't I ever find any of these things in google? That's just the sort of info I've been looking for.

@misunderstruck:

I had thunderbird and XMMS icons both messed up. looked like they were done with a bunch of little red dots. My firefox icon was fine though.

If you can cope with the extensive man page and the lengthy config files, FVWM2 has a "buttons" extension that'd probably work fine as a launcher for you. See this screenshot, for instance. . .

It can launch and also swallow any app - mine currently has an actual Xterm in it because I use the CLI so much, for instance. . .

Not true. I've used it in fluxbox before, works great as a launcher. You need to download a set (or make them yourself) of eap files from somewhere like get-e.org and then copy the ones you want to ~/.e/e/applications/engage and they'll appear in engage and you can launch your apps from it.

Adesklets work great as an app launcher, but isn't a taskbar (which is what I want)

I have only got engage to work kinda in enlightenment. And I know you need to have e17 libs for it to work which is basicly enlightenment.