If you want to have a decent status bar in fluxbox, then you really have several choices - tint2, lxpanel, cairo-dock, docky, perlpanel, awn, but which is best? Only you can decide, but I’ll try to show all of them so you can see what they are like.

Lxpanel

Lxpanel ...

I have long had the problem with running cairo-dock under fluxbox in that it locks up the workspace [think ‘desktop’] so you are effectually useless! I’ve reported it to the cairo-dock community and developers, and was told that it was a fluxbox problem, which I denied as it only ...

Like I said, I’m sorry Fluxbox for doubting you, you do still work well. I’ve enabled xcompmgr - which is an ‘X composition manager’ or ‘xcompmgr is the standard composition manager for the X Composite extension, which allows clients to modify what is drawn to the screen before it ...

I’ve encountered several problems with fluxbox today

• When using urxvt the title-bar would always be underneath the top panel, with no way of changing it. I was able to get round it using xterm but that meant that I couldn’t use the tabs that was programmed into ‘urxvt ...

Cairo-Dock is a pretty, fast and customizable desktop interface. You can see it as a good alternative/addition to Unity, Gnome-Shell, Xfce-panel, KDE-panel, etc. Its installable from the repos and has its home page at ’GLX-dock’ http://glx-dock.org/ where it has a good set of documentation, a ...

Although I have a very modern and up-to-date computer with 4 gigs of RAM, I do like the desktop environment of LXDE, which has a very light footprint. I have customised it to my needs and preference, with a top panel for everything and cairo-dock in the bottom panel place ...