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Arainach
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I don't use aterm, but I'm pretty sure that you need to tell it to enable transparencies on toolbars.
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guid0
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| Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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elite thread guys! 
i have been using 0.1.14-r2 for a long time and finally migrated to 0.9.x.
Still miss the old-style tabs tho, but ill find out on how to revive those.
Anyways, i use the following code in my ~/fluxbox/menu to make quick screendumps: | Code: | | [exec] (xwd screendump ) {xwd -out ~/Xscreendump-`date '+%Y%m%d-%Hh%Mm%Ss'`.xwd -root} |
This will generate quick dumps in .xwd format which i convert with the gimp to .png or any other format.
the suggested scrot app could work too i guess.
Happy fluxing,
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ciaranm
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| Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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| guid0 wrote: | | Still miss the old-style tabs tho, but ill find out on how to revive those. |
Uhm. Get patching.  |
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guid0
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| Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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Another great tool i use is:
freshly served from portage 
I use it to monitor heaploads of logfiles whenever i have the need
to do so. or feel ultra paranoia 
Its prolly an ugly hack these days, and has some better tool to do the
job, but old habits seem to die hard 
Anyways, i put this in my ~/.fluxbox/menu:
| Code: | | [exec] (root-tail full ) {root-tail -f -g 438x90+842+0 --interval 0.5 -fn -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-10 /etc/issue-root-tail,purple4, ; root-tail -f -g 1280x915+0+90 --interval 1.5 --color seashell4 -fn -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-12 /var/log/ntp.log /var/log/syslog /var/log/daemon.log var/log/auth.log,red3 /var/log/emerge.log,purple4 /var/log/apache/access_log /var/log/apache/error_log,red3 /var/log/cups/access_log /var/log/cups/error_log,red3 /var/log/cups/page_log /var/log/XFree86.0.log /var/log/mysql/mysqld.err,red3 /var/log/kern.log} |
This is set on an 1280x1024 desktop where the user has the rights to
read those files (group adm/portage/whatever). But you should get the idea.
I was gonna paste the content of the /etc/issue-root-tail file here,
however i got: | Code: | | cat: /mnt/cdrom/etc/issue-root-tail: Input/output error |
If i can find a backup i may have available on my desktop at work i will paste it here. Nothing special tho, just a slightly modded version of the gentoo-ascii we once had in the default 1.1/1.2 series of gentoo.
Once again, happy fluxing 
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guid0
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forgot to mention the ugly turnoff for the root-tail: | Code: | | [exec] (root-tail off ) {killall root-tail} |
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guid0
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| Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 6:50 am Post subject: |
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| ciaranm wrote: | | guid0 wrote: | | Still miss the old-style tabs tho, but ill find out on how to revive those. |
Uhm. Get patching. |
are there some patches already available? |
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Sujao
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| Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 7:45 am Post subject: |
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| Just wanted to ask if somebody found a way how to resize windows in ALL corners with ALT+RIGHT-CLICK. I find this very annoying in fluxbox. |
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guid0
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A friend pointed me at http://www.fms-engel.de/fbnews/
| Quote: | | fbnews is a RSS/RDF news fetcher for fluxbox. It creates a submenu structure in the fluxbox menu and fills it with the content of the RSS sources you specify. You can then read the news items with your favorite browser. |
No ebuild (yet). |
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ciaranm
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| guid0 wrote: | A friend pointed me at http://www.fms-engel.de/fbnews/
| Quote: | | fbnews is a RSS/RDF news fetcher for fluxbox. It creates a submenu structure in the fluxbox menu and fills it with the content of the RSS sources you specify. You can then read the news items with your favorite browser. |
No ebuild (yet). |
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# Copyright 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $
DESCRIPTION="fbnews, an RSS news fetcher for FluxBox"
HOMEPAGE="http://www.fms-engel.de/fbnews/"
# upstream use a silly download script. bleh!
SRC_URI="mirror://gentoo/fbnews-0.4.tar.gz"
LICENSE="GPL-2"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~x86 ~sparc ~mips"
IUSE=""
RDEPEND="
x11-wm/fluxbox
dev-lang/python"
src_install() {
sed -i \
-e "s,^\(INSTALLPREFIX = \)/usr/local$,\1${D}/usr," \
-e '/-C doc install/d' \
${S}/Makefile
mkdir -p ${D}/usr/{share,bin}
make install || die "oops!"
dodoc fbnewsrc README
doinfo doc/fbnews.info.gz
}
pkg_postinst() {
einfo "You will need to set up ~/.fluxbox/fbnewsrc. A sample file"
einfo "is in '${ROOT}usr/share/doc/${P}/fbnewsrc.gz'."
}
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Here is a script that allows you to mount anything that isn't already mounted (as specified in your /etc/fstab). Also, is it possible to run emerge --sync and such from a regular user menu?
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Kerjo
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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Okay, I'm using goblin's aterm start line of
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[exec] (aterm) {aterm -fn 5x10 -tr -sh 50 +sb -txttype orInverted -sl 300 -geometry 80x45 -cr Red}
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I can tell that it makes it transparent, but I can't see other windows behind it...only the background. Is this intended? How do I make it show other windows through it?
I'm confused on how to make other things transparent too, like my right-click menu or other windows/programs. |
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stonedz
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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Very nice thread, maybe here someone can help me, is there a way to display a window on every workspace ?
thanks in advance
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ardyer
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Kerjo wrote: |
I can tell that it makes it transparent, but I can't see other windows behind it...only the background. Is this intended? How do I make it show other windows through it?
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Yea, to make it "transparent" it is basically just copying that section of the background image. I think that somewhere on these forums is a method to make it truly transparent, but I don't remember where it is. |
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morsatrit
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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Very nice thread, maybe here someone can help me, is there a way to display a window on every workspace ?
thanks in advance |
Although I know its doable, I cannot seem to find the documentation to do it. I use perlpanel, and when there is a window open, if i click on it in perlpanel, I can get it to display on all workspaces. I will post soon as i can find it |
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Pink
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| morsatrit wrote: | | Quote: |
Very nice thread, maybe here someone can help me, is there a way to display a window on every workspace ?
thanks in advance |
Although I know its doable, I cannot seem to find the documentation to do it. I use perlpanel, and when there is a window open, if i click on it in perlpanel, I can get it to display on all workspaces. I will post soon as i can find it |
You could also just right click on the title bar of the window and press 'stick'. |
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xaenn
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This is a great thread!
I don't have much to add, but this hasn't really been mentioned yet. The use of autogrouping for tabs.
In ~/.fluxbox/init:
session.screen0.sloppywindowgrouping: true
session.groupFile: ~/.fluxbox/groups
~/.fluxbox/groups
aterm
gaim
gvim
Those are the only programs I autogroup together. Anyway I find it incredibly convenient to switch between them sloppily just by hovering over the title. Also makes the buddy list for gaim a lot less annoying. I wasn't aware there was a tabbed aterm, so this has been my way of doing things.
Also a few nice keys:
~/.fluxbox/keys
Control Down :ExecCommand beep-media-player -t
Control Left :ExecCommand beep-media-player -r
Control Right :ExecCommand beep-media-player -f
Control Mod1 r :Reconfigure
The reconfigure is a shout out for anyone who's used litestep before. |
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Kerjo
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:52 am Post subject: |
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Also for getting windows to stay on each workspace, most themes (ones I've used, anyway), have a button in the far left of the title bar for that window. Just click that little button to make that window stick across workspaces.
If that's just the themes I've used and I'm lucky, I apologize |
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xaenn
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:10 am Post subject: |
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Actually that is due to what you have in your fluxbox init file.
these two lines in particular:
session.titlebar.left: Stick
session.titlebar.right: Close |
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stonedz
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:18 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you for help.
I added [Sticky] {yes} in .fluxbox/apps in the section relative to the program I wanted to be sticky at startup.
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jlowe
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| Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 12:18 am Post subject: |
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This is a really good thread.
I had some problems with xfce a couple of weeks ago, and I have used it for over a year. But then, I emerged fluxbox and was playing with it while xfce wouldn't work. Once xfce was working again, I must admit that I missed the tabbing of windows in fluxbox. I also love the clean look.
One problem I had was getting the gtk2 themes to stick. I could run gtk-chtheme to set the theme, but on a restart, nautilus would look like hell again. The fluxbox FAQ said to run "gnome-settings-daemon", but I don't have this? If anyone knows how to get gtk2 apps looking properly on boot, let me know.
One thing I did do was run the xfce4-panel, which then loads the gtk-theme-engine for xfce. So that is cool because the gtk apps look like xfce. |
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Nemein
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| I'm currently using Fluxbox and have been loving it since day one. A question I would like to ask you all is what file manager seems to be the lighest in terms of usage of system resources that can be put into function harmoniously with fluxbox? I've taken a brief look at ROX and Evidence and ROX seems to be a bit more than a filemanager (more like a WM itself) and what I'm just looking for is a slim, good-looking and fully functional file manager for Flux. What would you guys suggest? |
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| novalis wrote: | I also felt in love with fluxbox and so I created a little configuration tool, that makes the configuration of flux easy.
http://www.makoe.com/fluxbox
Perhaps it helps to raise the popularity of flux |
does gentoo have it on portage?
because i followed the installations instructions and i am getting this error:
wget www.makoe.com/downloads/FluxCenter.tar.gz
unpack: tar -xvzf FluxCenter.tar.gz
install: sh install.sh
run: FluxCenter
error: /usr/local/bin/FluxCenter: line 2: java: command not found
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swimmer
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| Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 3:43 am Post subject: |
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Well - do you have any kind of Java installed?
HTH
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_mikec_
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[ebuild N ] dev-util/indent-2.2.9-r2
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/orbit-2.12.1
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/libbonobo-2.8.1
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/libglade-2.4.2
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/libgnomecanvas-2.8.0
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/gconf-2.8.1-r1
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.8.4
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/libgnome-2.8.1
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/libbonoboui-2.8.1
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-keyring-0.4.0
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.8.1
[ebuild N ] x11-themes/hicolor-icon-theme-0.5
[ebuild N ] x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.8.0
[ebuild N ] x11-themes/gtk-engines-2.2.0
[ebuild N ] x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.8.1
[ebuild N ] app-text/sgml-common-0.6.3-r4
[ebuild N ] app-text/opensp-1.5.1
[ebuild N ] app-text/openjade-1.3.2-r1
[ebuild N ] app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd-4.1-r2
[ebuild N ] app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd-4.0-r2
[ebuild N ] dev-perl/SGMLSpm-1.03-r5
[ebuild N ] app-text/docbook-dsssl-stylesheets-1.77-r2
[ebuild N ] app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd-3.0-r2
[ebuild N ] app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd-3.1-r2
[ebuild N ] app-text/docbook-xml-simple-dtd-4.1.2.4-r2
[ebuild N ] app-text/docbook-xml-simple-dtd-1.0
[ebuild N ] app-text/build-docbook-catalog-1.2
[ebuild N ] app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets-1.66.1
[ebuild N ] app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.3
[ebuild N ] app-text/docbook-sgml-utils-0.6.14
[ebuild N ] dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01-r1
[ebuild N ] dev-java/java-gtk-0.8.3
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i dont want any Gnome replate ebuilds. all the rest is good. is it possible to do this the easy way?
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swimmer
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Try to use 'emerge dev-java/blackdown-jdk -vp' and see which use-flags are used. Then you can exclude the 'gnome'-flag (which I think gives you all those dependencies) via "/etc/portage/package.use" (man emerge) or via | Code: | | USE="-gnome" emerge dev-java/blackdown-jdk -v" |
HTHA
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