fluxbox essential questions

imcominup · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 176

ok, i run xorg with fluxbox. i'm a web-developer so i want a kickass environment designed for maximum efficiency. meaning, editing multiple files at a time using vi, investigating many databases at a time, and having different web browsers open. i saw a gui with fluxbox on xorg that had shadows around all the windows. it had a bar on the left hand side of the screen where you could tab through different windows open in the desktop. and to the bottom left corner, there was a small icon menu that looked similar to OSX on a mac. what are these called? and how do i get 'em?

yabbadabbadont · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 4:46 am Post subject:

That doesn't sound like fluxbox... find the screenshot and post a link to it. It sounds more like E17 or fvmw.
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imcominup · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 176

it's fluxbox. it's my friend's desktop. i have fluxbox that runs on xorg. i just wanna know how to do it.

i92guboj · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:35 am Post subject:

You just can't do that in pure fluxbox, you need external programs, and with that info is almost impossible to guess the panels/apps that your friend is using. Unless we can see the screenshot I think you are out of luck. Sometimes even seeing it, it is hard to figure out what is a given desktop using if the customization is too extreme.

imcominup · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 176

that's ok. i appreciate it, anyways. i guess i'll just have to ask him later. when i figure it out tho, i'll post it in this thread.

Dralnu · Veteran Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 1919

shadows could be from xcompmgr. The panel might be one of a few dozen, and the last bit sounds like one of a few dozen pagers...
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Dud3! · Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 8:49 am Post subject:

I'm looking for a icon box that I can use with pekwm. MacOS style would be awesome, but as long as it's transparent (or just icons with no background, whichever) it'll make me happy.

I found x11-misc/iconbox but I don't think it can be transparent.
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Dud3! · Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:22 am Post subject:

I found a thing for adesklets that pretty much just what I was looking for. It's called yab and it's pretty cool.
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imcominup · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 176

well i did some more research and i found that xcompmgr was the shadow effects, and yab was the little desklet. i have ati radeon graphics card, and xcompmgr runs SOOOO SLOWWWWW on there. and it really doesn't look the way it's supposed to. i tried running excellerated graphics on my xorg.conf file, but it still didn't help. so i think i'm going to have to find an alternative to xcompmgr. as for yab, i have no idea how to get that installed. i emerged it. ran make and make install. i also ran yab.pl to register it. but i now have no idea what to do. how do i start it up with fluxbox? is it part of the fluxbox slit or is it something independant? i have not been able to find any information particularly on yab. please help.

imcominup · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 176

so i figured out what was wrong with my yab. basically i had to emerge imlib2 with png support in my useflags. then i tested it. then i registered it. then i ran adesklets. and boom. it worked. now i'm just going to configure where it comes up on the screen and to run it upon startup.

imcominup · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 176

does anybody know how to move the yab desklet around the screen? right now it's top left. i'd like it to be bottom left.