Fluxbox tweaking and such???

Southpaw76 · 09-04-2006, 04:53 PM

Hello all,
I'm running Slackware-Current (11-rc2), with Fluxbox-1.0rc2 and all is well

. However, I'm doing a little bit of tweaking to my desktop and I was wondering if a couple of things were possible...

* First of all, I was wondering if there is a way to change your wallpaper on the fly like from the right click menu???
In other words right now I've got all of my wallpapers saved under "~/.fluxbox/backgrounds". I also have my wallpaper setter set to look in my "~/.fluxbox/init" file under "~/.fluxbox/overlay" as suggested in the latest "How-To's".
I would like to be able to look in my menu and pick from a backgrounds section, so that I can switch backgrounds on the fly sort of like the styles directory.

As always, any ideas or suggestions are always welcome, thanx

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dive · 09-04-2006, 05:01 PM

I don't think it's possible with right-clk menu. But what I do: Download and install xdialog and then put a link to this script in menu:

Code:

 #!/bin/bash
 cd ~/.fluxbox/backgrounds

 while (true)
 do
 let n=1
 clear
 for file in `ls`
 do
 bg[$n]=$file
 filelist=$filelist${bg[n]}" "
 let n=$n+1
 done
 RESULTS=`xdialog --stdout --combobox "Set Background" 10 50 $filelist`

 case $? in
     0) fbsetbg $RESULTS
     ;;
     1) exit 0
     ;;
     255) exit 0
     ;;
 esac
 done

Then also put this in your fluxbox/startup file:

fbsetbg -l &

This will apply your last background on startup.

I've been using this for a few weeks now. When you hit the menu item the script will call up a dialog box listing all your backgrounds, choose one and press ok. Then prog runs in a loop until your press cancel.

masonm · 09-04-2006, 05:19 PM

fbsetbg ~/.fluxbox/backgrounds/`cat ~/.fluxbox/lastbg` &

Seems like a complicated way of doing fbsetbg -l

dive · 09-04-2006, 05:31 PM

good call I didn't know about that -l option

Fixing...

rigelan · 09-04-2006, 05:39 PM

In the file .fluxbox/menu, I have this set up and it works wonderfully:

[submenu] (Wallpaper)
[wallpapers] (path to folder) {fbsetbg -f}
[end]

This creates a menu item that when you roll your mouse over it, opens a list of all the image files in that folder. When you click on one, it makes that the background.

And to keep that wallpaper permanent for the next time I logged in, I used the rootcommand in .fluxbox/init

session.screen0.rootCommand: fbsetbg -l

Meaning, set the background as the last wallpaper you used, which should have been saved in .fluxbox/lastwallpaper

ryanoa · 09-04-2006, 05:43 PM

EDIT: rigelan beat me to it!!

There is a way to do this in your menu!

My menu config looks like this :

Code:

[submenu] (my backgrounds)
    [wallpapers] (~/.fluxbox/backgrounds) {fbsetbg -f}
[end]

Just put your images in that backgrounds directory and your good to go. You should also add this line to your ~/.fluxbox/init file:

Code:

session.screen0.rootCommand:  fbsetbg -l

That will set your bg to the last one you chose each time you start fluxbox

dive · 09-04-2006, 06:14 PM

Well you learn something new etc...

Southpaw76 · 09-04-2006, 06:19 PM

Okay, so by going this route Ryanoa, I could comment out the whole "~/.fluxbox/overlay" or "new way" of doing this in favor for what you guys are suggesting???
Sweet, I'll give it a shot and let you know how it works out

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Southpaw76 · 09-07-2006, 11:51 AM

Sorry it too me so long to get back...
However, I'm happy to report that your suggestion rigelan hit the nail on the head, everything works beautifully, thanx guys for all your help

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