The plank version in Debian Jessie/Sid is a bit old, it being version 0.6.1-1~experimental1 and the plank project has moved on since then. The current version is 0.7.1 which was released on 23 September 2014, and there’s talk of 0.8.0 too ...
more ...I’ve recently been working on two new fluxbox scripts and both are
concerned with menu generation. First up is mengen -
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 | #!/bin/bash
#: Title : mengen
#: Date : November 2013
#: Author : Sharon Kimble, James Morris
#: Version ... |
I’ve just updated fluxwant to ask you if you want to quit at any time, so now you can answer ‘yes’ or ‘y’ and it will
continue, you can answer ‘no’ or ‘n’ and it can continue without installing something, and ‘quit’ or ‘q’ and you exit
cleanly. So ...
Yesterday you saw the introduction of want, today I give you fluxwant, which is the same as want but gives you the
opportunity of creating a fluxbox menu. And here it is -
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I’ve just discovered GreatLittleRadioPlayer which has quite probably got the longest programme name I’ve ever seen!
But its a streaming radio player for ubuntu and fedora, but I’ve got the 32-bit version working on Debian testing, with
only one easily fulfillable dependency too. It can be found ...
If you want to have a system menu that is generated by the system rather than you, it is possible like this -
You need to move the current fluxbox menu out-of-the-way so that you don’t overwrite it, and you can save it with today’s date so it’s ...
more ...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 ...
more ...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 ...
more ...I now think that I have the perfect usermenu! Its got absolutely loads of styles, and also backgrounds, and they’re all available from the menu. And here it is -
[begin] (FluxBox)
[exec] (Claws-Mail) {claws-mail}
[exec] (google-chrome) {google-chrome}
[exec] (TEA Text Editor) {tea}
[exec] (Pogo music ...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
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 ...I’ve recently started using fluxbox as my main desktop, and ‘fluxbox’ “is a stacking window manager for the X Window
System, which started as a fork of Blackbox 0.61.1 in 2001, with the same aim to be lightweight. Its user interface has
only a taskbar, a pop-up ...
As this is such a large subject I’ve split it into three, and this part just deals with the menus, the ones you get if you ‘Right+Click’ with your mouse on the desktop.
## menu generated by 'menumaker 0.99.7' on 15/06/13
[begin] (FluxBox)
[submenu] (Development ...I’ve just started using skippy-xd which is a full-screen task-switcher for X11. You can get it from https://code.google.com/p/skippy-xd/downloads/list but it is ‘vintage software’ being released in 2011!
To install it is just sudo dpkg -i skippy-xd_0.5-1_i386.deb, and
then to configure ...