Fluxbox is a minimalistic windowmanager for X.
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Beginner's Guide to Fluxbox
Gnome and KDE seem to be pretty straightforward and certainly seem to be the most user friendly in terms of getting setup and running quickly with anything the average user would want to do.
I am ...
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Battery information on Fluxbox
How can I get my battery info (percentages) on Fluxbox?
I've heard of the gnome-power-manager, and wanted to use that, but there seems to be a problem...
$ gnome-power-manager
gnome-power-manager: ...
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What are the major differences between Fluxbox and Blackbox?
I'm considering switching to either Fluxbox or Blackbox as my window manager, but I'm not really sure which one to go with.
Are there any major differences between the two ?
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Fluxbox: blurry TTF fonts
I'm using fluxbox. I've noticed that the TTF fonts are quite blurry (particularly in GVim):
Here's an example, using Inconsolata 12pt in Fluxbox:
Here's the same example, using Inconsolata 12pt, ...
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Fluxbox - How to Configure Dual Monitors?
I have a nVidia 9800 video card and I previously setup my screen through the nVidia X Server Settings tool. But when I switch from Gnome to Fluxbox, it appears that my two monitors are treated as a ...
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byobu, ssh and an accidently closed fluxbox
So i was using fluxbox and had a terminal using ssh to connect to a server. This server automatically starts byobu for everyone who's connecting to him. At least until i accidently closed my fluxbox ...
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How to put a (Start) Menu button on Fluxbox Toolbar
I often run programs maximized (leaving no desktop area). I want to be able to use my mouse alone to open the menu, and my mouse has no scroll wheel. I'm just going for a simple old school windows ...
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No webcam recognition in Skype with Fluxbox
I'm using Ubuntu with Fluxbox and I would like to video chat on Skype. However, Skype doesn't recognize my webcam.
Ubuntu 12.04
Skype 4.0.0.8
libv4l-0 and libgstreamer0.10 are installed
luvcview ...
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How to make Fluxbox stop making annoying sound effects?
Whenever I open a new tab in Chrome, or pretty much interact with the UI in any way, Fluxbox makes some very annoying sound effects. Where can I disable that?
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Battery monitor on fluxbox
I was using fluxbox on my notebook, but it missed battery indicator.Is there any battery monitor on fluxbox?
[solved]
install wmbattery then add it to startup script.
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How do I select DWM or fluxbox to start on login?
I am trying to setup DWM in Ubuntu 10.10. The package is successfully built - and now I am trying to get it up and running. I created the dwm.desktop file with the proper text and the path to the dwm ...
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Window decoration of emacs23 window on fluxbox is outside screen
I am starting emacs remotely over an ssh connection.
But on the emacs window I cannot find a way to resize or move it. There is no fluxbox title bar visible, and I guess the title bar is above the ...
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Screen tearing in Fluxbox
I using fluxbox as my window manager and I'm experiencing tearing when viewing videos. Tearing does not happen under Gnome or Unity. I primarily use VLC to play videos in full-screen (1920x1080). ...
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Fluxbox: No folder icons in Thunar and PCManFM
I have an Ubuntu 12.10 installation and wanted to try out Fluxbox as a lightweight window manager. When I open Thunar it displays no icons for folders. I googled and made sure I have a .gtkrc-2.0 in ...
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Automount external hdd in fluxbox ubuntu -12.10 commandline install
I did the following:
Install command line interface with ubuntu alternate install 12.10 in vmwareplayer5(9.2.2)
After the base system was installed:
sudo apt-get update, upgrade and dist-upgrade,
...
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How to use KDE or Gnome hardware/network detection in another desktop environment?
I like to run light Window Managers, like Fluxbox, not for performance just because I find them simpler to configure and they fit better my working style. But having automatic hardware and network ...
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Skype not always loading as a applet in Fluxbox
I've put skype & in my .fluxbox/startup file, and Skype indeed does start when I power the computer on. The problem is, it often doesn't load as an applet. You can see what I mean on this ...
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There is no sound in Fluxbox
In both Gnome and Unity sound works pretty great. But, when I switch to Fluxbox, voila, no sound! How do I fix this?
Also, I saw the keyboard shortcuts in the ./fluxbox/keys folder, and they simply ...
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Setting LightDM background from command-line without Unity
When I'm running Unity, I can set the background image with the following command: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri "file://$file". This also changes the background of the ...
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How to get icons in pcmanfm ubuntu 12.10 with only fluxbox
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 via mini-iso, after that I installed xinit, xorg, fluxbox, xterm, pcmanfm , chromium-browser, lxappearance. There is for now one set of icons, in lxappearance I chose the icon ...
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gnome control center and fluxbox
I am running fluxbox on my ubuntu. I'd like to use gnome-control-center to help with some settings. However, there are configurations that only work on unity.
Right now the one that most bugs me is a ...
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Apply transparency only to some windows with FluxBox
I'm new to Fluxbox, I've adopted it this week end. (I only knew Kde, Gnome, and Unity lately).
Is there a possibility to apply transparency only to windows that match a criteria ?
for example a ...
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Deleted unity cannot login user [closed]
I upgraded to 12.04 today and planned to set gnome classic as my standard wm as i always do, one step has also been removing unity and now i did so. Problem now is that i can't login, neither with ...
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Alt+tab on Fluxbox [closed]
I've been using fluxbox on my netbook, and have been very pleased. That is, with everything but one feature. I would really like it if I could use fluxbox with the added functionality that when I use ...
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How do I change the width of the scrollbar in Fluxbox? [closed]
It would also be nice if I could autohide the scrollbar if there is nothing to scroll- is that possible?
