Share your Fluxbox setup/configs etc

linus72 · 04-24-2019, 08:14 PM

OK, I want to get back to my roots with Fluxbox. One of the best distros Ive seen with a customized Fluxbox desktop are my own NfluxOS (dead) and Hag Linux (dead).
https://archiveos.org/hag/

I borrowed all my stuff from various distros including Hag and modified the Arch linux xdg menus for Slackware, to contribute and make a SlackBuild/pkg for Slackware-xdg-menus from SlackBuilds.

Now, after about 4-6yrs abscence I want to again make a great Fluxbox desktop.
So, any screenshots, advice, menus, configs you can contribute would be Great!

frankbell · 04-24-2019, 08:21 PM

Gosh, I got a bunch of them on my blog and I've posted several of them here in the Slackware forum, where there's a long "show your desktop" thread, and in the Desktop-->Desktop Screenshots forum. I think that, if you look in those two threads, you will find a lot of interesting images.

Here's Fluxbox on Mageia v. 6: http://pineviewfarm.net/weblog/wp-co...iaFlux_500.jpg

Here's a little script I adapted from FVWM to change my wallpapers every unit time. (I switch to the "Christmas" directory for the holidays.)

Code:

 $ cat wallpaper.sh
#!/bin/sh

while true; do
       fbsetbg -f -R ~/wallpapers
#      fbsetbg -f -R ~/Christmas
        sleep 30m
done

linus72 · 04-24-2019, 09:14 PM

Awesome thanks frankbell

here's my NfluxOS Ubuntu 10.10 build with customized menu from Hag linux, customized by me Fluxbox menu, fbpanel and conky

I lost my MinimalX slackware 13.37/12.2 distros but will rebuild it now.

frankbell · 04-24-2019, 09:33 PM

You are most welcome.

Nice piece of work there.

I played with Conky once and understand the eye candy appeal, but I prefer GKrellM for its compactness, especially when I can get the fully transparent Glass theme to work. These days, it doesn't seem to work with most DEs. It tends to work on WMs on most distros, but not on Mageia. But there are dozens of other themes that I like.

I have noticed that not all distros include the Fluxbox regen menu script in the Fluxbox build in their repos. If you need it, I posted it to my LQ Blog: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ox-menu-37797/

_peter · 04-25-2019, 01:12 PM

Thanks for the info both, fluxbox is quite useful indeed and very stable on slackware.
Following another thread on LQ, to get proper display of wallpaper i had to comment out the 3 statements below from the system theme file in use

/usr/share/fluxbox/styles/bora_green/theme.cfg copied to ~/.fluxbox/styles/theme.cfg

Is there a better way without messing anything in theme files ?

Code:

#background:                                    flat 
#background.color:                              #355021
#background.colorTo:                            #355021

for tiling i use these keys quite a bit, placed in ~/.fluxbox/keys

Code:

Alt A     :ArrangeWindows
Alt Left  :ArrangeWindowsStackRight
Alt Right :ArrangeWindowsStackLeft
Alt Up    :ArrangeWindowsStackBottom
Alt Down  :ArrangeWindowsStackTop

sevendogsbsd · 04-25-2019, 03:11 PM

Glad I stumbled on this thread - I am inspired to give fluxbox another go. Been using cwm for so long (it just works) that I had forgotten how cool fluxbox is.

frankbell · 04-25-2019, 08:17 PM

I use fbsetbg to set the wallpaper. I've never had to mess with the internal configuration of a theme file.

See man fbsetbg.

sevendogsbsd · 04-26-2019, 07:29 AM

I too do not pair wallpaper with themes. I use feh to set wallpaper and launch it via .xinitrc, works perfectly. Got my fluxbox set up reinstalled last night, forgotten how nice it was: gives you a menu option to list your wallpaper and I just set it with feh --bg-fill.

elcore · 04-26-2019, 08:42 AM

I've got one of those too..

Code:

xv -max -root ~/image.png && pkill xv