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Flux!
by Johnny Mnemonic - May 17th 2005 18:17:44
Recently switched over to this WM and have found it to be quite nice. I can
definately say that I've been impressed with it so far. Keep up the great
work!
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Simply the best
by vokyvsd - Jul 13th 2004 08:13:47
I've been using fluxbox for 3.5 of the 4 years that I've been free of
Windows. I am continually searching for the best window manager, and I am
continually returning to flux. Thanks for an excellent piece of software,
and keep up the good work.
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nice, but flaky
by Ben Crowell - Mar 1st 2004 14:15:17
I used Fluxbox for about 6 months, and liked it in many ways. The tabbed
windows were a great way to organize things, and I liked the way it
conserved screen space. Coming from KDE, it was nice to have a window
manager that wasn't in my face all the time.
BUT...
I've switched to fvwm2 now, because there were just too many bugs in
Fluxbox 0.1.14. I tried posting on the Fluxbox forum, and also used the
bug reporting page, but never got any response. It seems a little strange
to me that the version number is 0.1.x, and yet it's listed here on
Freshmeat as production/stable. My experience has been that the 0.1.x is
accurate, and it's not at all production quality. Maybe in a couple of
years I'll try it again, and see if it's more solid. I do miss the
features I'd grown to know and love, but I just can't spend all my time
working around bugs.
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Re: nice, but flaky
by Ben Crowell - Mar 10th 2004 15:45:11
D'oh! I'm a moron. Everybody please ignore the negative part of the above
post, and just read the positive part. Of the two really horrible bugs
that were driving me crazy, I eventually realized that one was a hardware
problem with my mouse (sticky right button), and one was a problem with my
terminal emulator (aterm), not with fluxbox.
Fluxbox rocks. I'm back to using it, and am not exeperiencing any
problems.
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fluxbox
by Avi Y - Nov 5th 2002 11:15:55
Very nice Wm.
it would be nicer if there could be a way to remember window
groups:
1) between restarts of fluxbox.
2) an option to iconify/restore a group
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avi Y
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Re: fluxbox
by Avi Y - Nov 19th 2002 07:46:34
another "problem":
once you got used to fluxbox, and to working
with tabbed windows - you can't go back to any other WM.
No other WM is as convenient as fluxbox... :)
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avi Y
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Re: fluxbox
by stephenjayna - Nov 20th 2002 08:16:45
> Very nice Wm.
> it would be nicer if there could be a
> way to remember window
> groups:
> 1) between restarts of fluxbox.
> 2) an option to iconify/restore a group
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check out http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docs/en/newdoc.tabbing.php#autogrouping
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Re: fluxbox
by Avi Y - Nov 26th 2002 01:41:58
well, i have surely checked out this link before posting the message.
there are several problems in fluxbox autogrouping method:
1) use only 1st part of WM_CLASS which is not always app specific (could
be something like "file" or "toolbox" etc...)
2) you can't iconify/deiconify a group
3) between restarts of fluxbox all autogroups are lost, except the
ones in the 1st workspace
i hope this clarifies my message...
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avi Y
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Re: fluxbox
by Avi Y - Dec 10th 2002 06:36:44
Just adding another points i forgot, when autogrouping, you
can't tell fluxbox not to apply the grouping on transient windows
and popups.
for example - try autogrouping on mozilla, and try working that
way for a few days.....
the class "mozilla-bin" applies for the navigator, the mailer and even to
the "Find" dialog....
So here is the conclusion - the autogrouping should be better.
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avi Y
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Rocks!
by Jussi Lind - Oct 12th 2002 11:03:16
I'm never going to run KDE again.
Fluxbox is all I want; just a window manager, light-weight, damn reliable
and configurable.
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Mixed review
by Frankzen - Jun 16th 2002 10:01:00
Fluxbox is a fine window manager - it takes BB a step further - BUT there
is at least one app on my machine which it won''t run. The graphical
version of links (using any of the available drivers on my machine) is
dead. It runs fine in IceWm and in XFCE.
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Just what I was looking for!
by Vijay Avarachen - May 11th 2002 17:44:06
I have many servers that I often VNC into, and using Gnome and KDE for the
gui environment was never an option due to their heavy graphics. I
survived on WindowMaker for quite some time but I was not too fond of the
icons that took up desktop real estate. BUt I loved its
configurability...I finally found Fluxbox, it satisfied all my needs. Its
very simple, fast and highly configurable. The best BEST thing about this
is tabs. I hate having multiple mozilla windows, or xterm windows
floating around and I didn't want to install gnome or kde just to be able
to use gnome-multiterm or konsole. Now I can tab just about anything...I
highly recommend this GUI if you have to use gui and don't want the gui to
take up precious harddrive space and chow down your bandwidth (when
remotely activated). Perfect for old video cards ...with small harddrives
and barely any vid. mem.
Thanks,
Vijay Avarachen
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Vijay Avarachen
http://www.dggcentral.net
"Knowledge is the only wealth, that grows as you share it,
and decreases as you save it up. "
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Re: Just what I was looking for!
by caph - Jul 2nd 2002 18:35:41
Haha...I only leave ion for fluxbox when I want a little bloat ;-)
Funny how different standards work. It's a great windowmanager though.
Keep it up fluxbox hackers!
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Re: Just what I was looking for!
by Avi Y - Dec 3rd 2002 03:52:01
Hi,
Ion might have been useful if it could deal well with popups and
transient windows.
I think that PWM was much better than Ion.....:(
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avi Y
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Really a practical desktop
by Lispy - Apr 29th 2002 17:40:34
Using linux now for 2 years as my everyday desktop i tried many different
environments. I knew blackbox but never really got used to it. What i
always loved were tabwindows. Fluxbox combines the sleak and appealing
interface of the blackbox desktop with (optional) tabbed windows what
makes it really great. You just NEVER run out of space again. Whats more
it really runs stable, i used it now for half a year and i wouldn´t
blame it for any X-Crashes i had meanwhile. It was easy to install on my
Slackbox and the themes are clearly beautiful. I can really recommend this
to any user who seeks a fast and reliable desktop or just hasn´t a
ram loaded machine.
cu,
Lispy
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Very nice WM.....
by billysara - Feb 10th 2002 05:39:24
This is _very_ nice ;-)
Fast, small, simple to use. Hasn't crashed on me so far either after
about a week of using it on two or three different machines and
distros.
I'd forgotton how pleasant it was to use a simple, straight to the point
windowmanager after using KDE for the past year... ;-)
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Excellent....
by kodgehopper - Feb 8th 2002 18:51:59
Installation was a breeze. Fluxbox was happy to accept my Blackbox config
files. The keyboard support is absolutely brilliant. You can bind keys to
do everything from change desktops to shade windows to run commands (I
hardly ever touch my mouse anymore). I do, however, prefer the wheel-mouse
support in blackbox (using the appropriate patch).
Still, I give fluxbox a well deserved 9/10 (10/10 once wheel mice support
is more little more like blackbox's). Highly recommended to any blackbox
fan.
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kodge
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very nice
by karellen - Dec 9th 2001 12:33:23
Very nice. I missed keybindings in blackbox and bbkeys was not actually
what I wanted. Also, the console-like workspace changing rules. Iconizing
stuff is pretty useful as well. Never used the tabs tho, but you can
always disable them. Good work!
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Re: very nice
by Avi Y - Dec 3rd 2002 03:50:33
I think you should really try the tabs.
once you start working with them,
you can't stop... :)
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avi Y
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Very nice!
by d0glesby - Dec 7th 2001 11:21:30
Looks good... I'm very happy to see someone picking up where Blackbox has
left off!
Excellent window manager, very light, very fast. Works great!!!
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Problems with resizing
by stefan - Apr 23rd 2004 21:01:30
I enjoy fluxbox too for its fast startup, easy menuconfiguration, and the
missing of unused features.
But I sometimes have problems when resizing a window from the lower right
corner
The window moves and resizes in an uncontrollable way, getting
taller and taller - mainly when nearly maximized in the beginning, and
most often it is mozilla which is behaving like that.
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