Stupid non-KDE WM question

wilburpan · l33t Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 977

I mainly use KDE, but I've been playing around more with fluxbox recently. When I'm not using Linux, I use a Mac, so I was happy to find a KDE window decoration that puts the close window/minimize/maximize buttons in the upper left hand corner. This is probably trivial, but one of the barriers I have to using Fluxbox more often is the fact that the same buttons are on the upper right hand corner.

Is it possible to move the close window/minimize/maximize buttons in the upper left hand corner in any other window manager program?

jkcunningham · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 3:53 am Post subject:

Yes. Check out the fluxbox.org website. There's very good documentation there that tells you how to do it. Basically, you just have to make a few changes to a text file in ~/.fluxbox/*/init. There may be a gui way to do it as well, but I remember reading about all of it on the fluxbox.org site.

Have fun.

-Jeff

wilburpan · l33t Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 977

Maybe I'm being stupid, but I couldn't find a parameter in either the init or style files in fluxbox that would make the change I'm looking for.

I would like to have three buttons in the upper left hand corner of the window that will , in order, close, minimize, and maximize the window. Basically the same layout as in OS X.

shm · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 2:00 am Post subject: Re: Stupid non-KDE WM question

lazarusrat · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 12:24 pm Post subject:

I'm not sure how flux does it. In openbox, there's a session.titlebarLayout setting in the rc file that defines the order. (http://icculus.org/openbox/2/rc.php)
I think this was originally floating around as a patch for blackbox, so flux probably incorporated it the same way. It's just a matter of finding the right flux rc file and making sure of the setting's name.

wilburpan · l33t Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 977

Found it. It's in the /.fluxbox/init file, and the parameters are session.titlebar.left and session.titlebar.right

I'm now enjoying my new OS X-like fluxbox. Thanks for the lead.

And as far as I can tell, this is not in the fluxbox documentation at all.

jkcunningham · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 11:26 pm Post subject:

Glad you are happy. I knew I saw it somewhere when I was fooling around with the flux settings. Maybe you ought to post a link to a site with the documentation. If there isn't one, perhaps post what you did (for others).

-Jeff

wilburpan · l33t Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 977

This is what I did. The file to edit is ~/.fluxbox/init. Scrolling through the file, you will see two parameters: session.titlebar.left and session.titlebar.right.

I changed my init file to read: