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(on Wikipedia)
http://www.fluxbox.org/

A light window manager. Based on Blackbox. Not bad, but not as good as Blackbox. I liked Openbox more than this.

• Blackbox has been obsoleted six ways from Sunday. See versus Blackbox.

• 2007-04-21 - 0.9.15.1 on (distribution not recorded)
• 2007-03-04 - 0.9.9 on (distribution not recorded)
• 2005-09-13 - 0.61.1 on PCLinuxOS Sep '05

• (date not recorded) - (version not recorded) on Slackware (version not recorded)

2007-04-21 - 0.9.15.1 ∞

I turned the slit off. Now how do I turn it back on? Oh, it's called the "toolbar"..

• The scroll wheel doesn't work
• The fourth/fifth mouse clicks don't work to go back/forth in Firefox. I'd bet they're not working at all.
• Has no opaque resize

• Items appear way too large in the tray. There should be a maximum width for programs listed there. =/

Skype now appears in the tray!

2007-03-04 - 0.9.9 ∞

• Kmix and KGPG are displayed in Fluxbox's bottom bar, but I need to use docker for Skype. Except docker floats overtop of the bar in an unintelligent way.
• I cannot alt-right-click to change the proportions of a screen from the top-right, top-left or bottom-left. That sucks.

• When I show window contents while dragging, it really bogs things down. Sad.

2005-09-13 - 0.61.1 ∞

See Fluxbox vs Blackbox[doesn't exist]. Some functionality is misplaced or missing. Things just feel clumsy with flux compared to the original. fluxbox-generate_menu is wonderful.

Fluxbox tips and tricks ∞

• You can change the hotkeys or style and then use the menu to reload or restart.

menus:

• left-click on the root to get one menu
• right-click on the root to get another menu

• right-click on a title to get a window menu

• If you have windows filling the screen and you can't see the root, you can use the edge of the screen instead of the root.

tabbed windows:

• middle-click on a titlebar and drag it into the body of another window to merge the two windows. Then you can right-click on one of the items and drag it out to separate them later.

Fluxbox customization ∞

.fluxbox/keys for hotkeys.

Mod1 Tab :NextWindow
Mod1 Shift Tab :PrevWindow
Mod1 1 :Workspace 1
Mod1 2 :Workspace 2
Mod1 3 :Workspace 3
Mod1 4 :Workspace 4

Issues

• Alt-Tab and such don't pull up a nice listing of what's there.. it's just a harsh window change. It's terrible.

• I understand there's no hotkey to send a window to a specific workspace. That really sucks. bbkeys can do this and it works with flux.

You can steal (old) blackbox bbkeys settings with convertkeys

Fluxbox styles ∞

.fluxbox/init holds a string which points to the style file.

Fluxbox v0.1.14 is compatible with the Blackbox 0.6 styles, and not 0.7 styles.