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 Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 3:44 am Post subject: FluxBox Taskbar |
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I love FluxBox. Its lightweight, stable and I love the tabbed aplications. My only beef is I can't stand the "taskbar" they use (called "Slit"). I would kill to get Gnome-Panel running, but although it runs I cannot get windows to Iconify into it. What are other alternatives to Slit out there that may work. My biggest beef with slit is instead of having "pictures" for each desktop it has the arrows on it that you have to tabe across. I setup 6 desktops..so this becomes pretty obnoxious. Gnome-Panel has hit that on the head and it works perfect for me. Anyways...I'm pretty open to any insight. If people have screenshots of cool setups of taskbars I'd love to see those as well. Thanks!!
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Haven't really looked into it, but you should be aware that the slit is not the taskbar. The slit is where the docked apps are (tiny icon for messengers, tickers, pagers etc.). The taskbar is ugly, I agree, but there are a few out there that will work. You could try the developement edition. Anyways, search the forums. I read somewhere an hour or so ago about running other taskbars in fluxbox.
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| Quote: | | My biggest beef with slit is instead of having "pictures" for each desktop it has the arrows on it that you have to tabe across. I setup 6 desktops..so this becomes pretty obnoxious. |
Not exactly the solution you're looking for, but the quick way to switch is hitting Alt + F1 to go to the first desktop, Alt + F2 to go to the second, etc. I don't know when the last time I hit one of those arrows was.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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| have you tried fluxter?, it shows a small representation of each desktop and the windows on them. And I swear one of the first fluxbox FAQ corrects the common, but wrong, belief that the taskbar is called the slit, it isn't. |
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Using fbpager and I only keep the fluxbox taskbar for docked apps. Fbpager is pretty sweet, I was looking for a simple pager which supported transparency and was easy to configure, but nothing I had found so far worked well or looked good.
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I have my fluxbox set up to scroll through the desktops using the mouse wheel...
works perfectly and very very fast....
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| Frodg wrote: | I have my fluxbox set up to scroll through the desktops using the mouse wheel...
works perfectly and very very fast.... |
I use my mouse wheel in mozilla. How do you work around that?
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Using fbpager and I only keep the fluxbox taskbar for docked apps. Fbpager is pretty sweet, I was looking for a simple pager which supported transparency and was easy to configure, but nothing I had found so far worked well or looked good.[/url] |
That actually looks pretty sweet. I'm going to look into it. Im still trying to find a better way to iconfy my windows, as I'm a huge fan of using that basic feature..I'm not sure I could live without it.S
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Using fbpager and I only keep the fluxbox taskbar for docked apps. Fbpager is pretty sweet, I was looking for a simple pager which supported transparency and was easy to configure, but nothing I had found so far worked well or looked good.[/url] |
That actually looks pretty sweet. I'm going to look into it. Im still trying to find a better way to iconfy my windows, as I'm a huge fan of using that basic feature..I'm not sure I could live without it.
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| KePSuX wrote: | | Frodg wrote: | I have my fluxbox set up to scroll through the desktops using the mouse wheel...
works perfectly and very very fast.... |
I use my mouse wheel in mozilla. How do you work around that? |
If you set up fluxbox to change with the wheel, you just need to hover over an unused section of screen and scroll (outside any open windows)
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What version of Fluxbox are you running? All you need to do to have apps minimize to the taskbar is to have an "iconbar" entry in the tools list. This resides in your ~/.fluxbox/init file. My line is:
session.screen0.toolbar.tools: workspacename, iconbar, systemtray, clock
(Notice that I can't stand the arrows for desktop-switching either - I removed them completely. Fbpager rocks.)
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