Fluxbox 1.0:The Linux Window Manager

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Fluxbox is a window manager for UNIX/Linux and BSD operating systems. It's based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. Fluxbox looks like Blackbox and handles styles, colors, window placement and similar things exactly like Blackbox (100% theme/style compatibility).
  • Configurable window tabs
  • Iconbar (for minimized/iconified windows)
  • Wheel scroll changes workspace
  • Configurable titlebar (placement of buttons, new buttons etc)
  • KDE support
  • New native integrated keygrabber (supports emacs like keychains)
  • Maximize over slit option
  • Partial GNOME support
  • Extended Window Manager Hints support
  • Slit dockap ordering
*www.imgx.org/pthumbs/large/2489/exoduz_fluxbox.jpg​

After more than four years, Fluxbox 1.0 has finally arrived. This release includes new themes, many bug fixes, updated translations, better shaped corners and a lot more surprises. Let's have a quick look over some of the new stuff to be found in Fluxbox 1.0:
  • New default style: bloe
  • New styles: ostrich zimek_darkblue, zimek_green, zimek_bisque, carp, arch, bora_black, bora_blue, bora_green, green_tea, bloe
  • Fixed shape handling, now shaped corners have border
  • Allow negative numbers in command "Workspace"
  • Added utility fluxbox-remote
  • Allows script access to most fluxbox commands
  • Support must be turned on in the init file with session.screen.allowRemoteActions; the syntax is, e.g., fluxbox-remote "CustomMenu ~/.fluxbox/custommenu"
  • Added keycommands :AddWorkspace and :RemoveLastWorkspace
  • Added some missing Open Office entries and window managers, plus some other minor changes in fluxbox-generate_menu
Updated languages:
  • Swedish
  • Chinese
  • German
  • Spanish
  • English (US)
  • English (UK)
  • Russian
  • French
  • Finnish
  • Portuguese
Through the bug fixes we can see updates for compiling with gcc 4.3, fixed resource usage due to Skype 1.4, fix submenu placement with xinerama after moving the menu between heads, fixed some window placement issues and many many more. For a detailed changelog, please visit this page.

Home Page : .:F L U X B O X:. - Welcome to fluxbox
Download : Link 1 [1Mb] | Link 2 [.85mb]
 
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mehulved

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Re: Fluxbox 1.0:The Linux Windows Manager

Nice. I am already sync'ing my portage tree. I hope gentoo gets 1.0 in stable arch soon.
 
[xubz]

[xubz]

"The Cake is a Lie!!"
Re: Fluxbox 1.0:The Linux Windows Manager

Whoo Hooo! It feels SO 1337 to use fluxbox on my Laptop :D
 
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mehulved

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Re: Fluxbox 1.0:The Linux Windows Manager

BTW, it's a window manager not windows manager
 
aditya.shevade

aditya.shevade

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Re: Fluxbox 1.0:The Linux Windows Manager

^^ :-D

by the way, defending windows manager would be that it can handle (manage) more than a window at a time, hence windows. :-D
 
gary4gar

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I have tried it, generated a menu and the memory usage is always low
but what file manager to use for Flux or its juts xterm?
 
gary4gar

gary4gar

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It seems it does not come it its own file manager
so guys what do you use??
nautilus or thunar?

gx_saurav said:
It still looks crap compared to KDE or GNome, there is hardly anything in Flubox
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First of all stop trolling:|
then second looks aren't important for everyone, some want lowest possible resource usage and still want a fully functional minimalistic environment to work with.

thats when windows managers like flux,e17,Efce,blackbox(it has a windows version too) etc come into picture:)
 
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mehulved

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gary4gar said:
It seems it does not come it its own file manager
so guys what do you use??
nautilus or thunar?
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I don't use any. Doesn't make sense to use one.
But, for those who want, there's rox, gentoo, mc, etc.
 
infra_red_dude

infra_red_dude

Wire muncher!
I thot it were the macboys who said "Look at the UI its so cool" and never bothered about features!!! :D :D

You need to use it to realize how useful and potent it is for the memory usage!

Regarding file manager, I found Thunar to be really good.
 
[xubz]

[xubz]

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Yup! Thunar is quite good!

I'd suggest you guys wait for fluxbuntu 7.10 to be released :)
 
gxsaurav

gxsaurav

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Whats the point of having a C2D with 1 GB RAM, if u r so paranoid about RAM & resource usage. There is so much horsepower why not use it for something decent
 
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mehulved

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gx_saurav said:
Whats the point of having a C2D with 1 GB RAM, if u r so paranoid about RAM & resource usage. There is so much horsepower why not use it for something decent
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Not everyone has that. For my measly P4 2.0GHz, it's very much useful to run fluxbox since I run ubuntu many a times under virtualisation. Fluxbox makes things so much better. It leaves so much more resources for doing some work. Until I learn to use ratpoison, I will never look beyond fluxbox.
 
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