Be sure you read the documentation for Fluxbox on their site. It tells you how to easily set your own wallpaper (and keep it from getting reset by any styles you download and install), make your own styles, customize just about everything.

And be sure you post some screenshots for us to see once you get it looking the way you like. Flux can make for a simple and elegant yet sharp-looking desktop.

And the longer you use it, the more comfortable and "natural" it begins to feel.

Anymore I fricken HATE going back to something like Windows 2000, and even KDE has started to bother me. I keep wanting to right-click to start up an application, and the clutter of other interfaces has begun to get on my nerves.

But that's why I started using BB4Win in Windows to alleviate that kind of irritation.

downloading BB for Win now... this shoudl give XP a boost for me while im at work being forced to work on this OS

Hello! =)
Help me, please: i can't understand what is running on second aterm on this screenshot http://www.inkblotweb.com/current-screenshot.html (i mean source code editor, not top process list)

Seems that I'm the only one who uses KDE here. I like it cuz:
1)it has easy control center. This center looks more "optional" than GNOME's; 2) I hate black standard mouse (I use 3d-black now, it looks much mo pretty). Sometimes I use XFCE4. So here's my q: Can I change cursor-theme in wm, flux, gnome, xfce? It really nerves me And 1 thing nerves me in KDE - increasin'/decreasin' sound vol. I don't like the window it opens everytime to change the vol. I tried to use gnome's panel to change sound... but it's unconvinient. So here's my another q: Is there smth to change volume like I do it in gnome (pop up), but without gnome?
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I still think that Windows' GUI is much more convinient & easy than any Linux's GUI (I don't say configurable! ).
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But Linux's console (actually BASH) is the best thing in the world. Everytime I use it, Sh admires me by its really CONVINIENCE (these times I think why do I use GUI, but then answer comes - XMMS! )
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And to read LQ forums!

judging from the menu its vim

ouch, really, when "set number" and "syntax on"... =)
thanks!

I just have to put in my vote for fluxbox. It can be a bit tricky at first, but once you figure it out it's hard to match its power and speed. And most of the config files in ~/.fluxbox aren't really that tough to figure out once you read through them. The documentation on fluxbox.org or in the fluxbox manpages will usually clear up any confusion. And if you're really stumped you can find plenty of help on freenode in #fluxbox. As long as you ask nicely and do your research, people are usually willing to help. Look for me there (automat), I'll be glad to help if I'm around.

Anyway, here's some flux screenshots....and maybe a couple kde shots as well.

hey,
what about FVWM2? No one uses that or what?
I use it and it is quite good on my Athlon 2400+ XP and on a Pentium 200 MMX.
Fluxbox is good too, but, not as ultimately configurable as FVWM.
bye


btw: when are the voting results going to come out?

Yes fluxbox is fantastic. I use 0.9.11.

If you have xorg6.8.1 and enable the xcompmgr (X Composite Manager) the 'real' transparency effects are really impressive.

I post a screenshot when I get time.

I too like fluxbox, even if my machine (a Celeron 1.3 GHz) does have enough horsepower to run something beefier, I don't need tons of eye candy.

fyi, fluxbox-0.9.12 is in -current as of Saturday night, I believe. That's what I'm running now.

Garry

I use openbox with PyPanel personaly. Its a very minimal setup that does what i need it to without killing my ram. http://zeroto9.deviantart.com has some pics of my setup the latest pic shows what my desktop currently is and the older ones are my old fluxbox setup.

Browsing one of my old posts rocks LOL.
Right now i'm a happy flux'er

I can only speak about fluxbox at this point, but the answer is "yes."

In fact, this configuration involves X11, so I suppose that it would work as long as the window manager/desktop doesn't have it's own way of configuring the cursors. (Apparently, KDE does have one. I'd assume that a full gnome installation would also. I didn't stay with windowmaker or xfce long enough to get to the cursors, and I've never tried to change things in Knoppix/KDE, which I've mostly used for troubleshooting....)

So, first you'll need some cursors. There should be some alternative themes already installed with X11. Look for them here:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons
In that directory, you should find some other directories with names like "handhelds" and "redglass," etc. In those directories are the cursors, and the name of the directory is the name of the cursor theme.

In that directory, you should also find another directory named "default" containing a file named "index.theme." That's the file you need to edit in order to switch themes. So, once you've opened the file in a text editor, you'll see:
[Icon Theme]
Inherits=(the name of the theme currently in use)

All you need to do is change the name you see to the name of the directory you want to use (if it says "handhelds," replace that with "redglass," for example.) Or you can comment out the line in use and add a new one with the theme you want to use. Restart X, and there you go.

Now all you'll need are some additional cursor themes. You can find them by googling, and also try www.kde-look.org. I like the jimmac cursors which I downloaded from his site at one point but I think they are included in newer versions of X11. Not sure, though. Anyway, unzip the theme to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons, edit index.theme, and that's all there is to it.

(I read about a utility to view and change cursors on freshmeat.net at one point, but I never tried it.)

I was really happy when I figured this out on my own with Google.

Thank you very much. I didn't try yet, but I'm sure it works.
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Yeah, this helped! Thanks.
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