Fluxbox 1.0:The Linux Window Manager

Dark Star · 09-10-2007, 10:18 PM

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

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]

mediator · 09-10-2007, 10:40 PM

Amazing!

SunnyChahal · 09-10-2007, 10:48 PM

dark star bhaiu r our khabari.
u got all the nooos on every nooo SW's.

mehulved · 09-10-2007, 10:57 PM

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

[xubz] · 09-10-2007, 11:26 PM

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

mehulved · 09-10-2007, 11:40 PM

BTW, it's a window manager not windows manager

aditya.shevade · 09-10-2007, 11:46 PM

^^

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

Garbage · 10-10-2007, 09:41 AM

nice yaar....

Downloading........

gary4gar · 10-10-2007, 10:25 AM

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?

gxsaurav · 10-10-2007, 10:30 AM

It still looks crap compared to KDE or GNome, there is hardly anything in Flubox

gary4gar · 10-10-2007, 10:47 AM

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by gx_saurav

It still looks crap compared to KDE or GNome, there is hardly anything in Flubox

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

mehulved · 10-10-2007, 10:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gary4gar

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

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 · 10-10-2007, 01:41 PM

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

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] · 10-10-2007, 01:48 PM

Yup! Thunar is quite good!

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

gxsaurav · 10-10-2007, 05:05 PM

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

Desi-Tek.com · 10-10-2007, 05:33 PM

@gx_saurav like virtualization?

mediator · 10-10-2007, 05:54 PM

^Nope he probably means anti-virus, anti-infection, disk defragement kinda softwares!

aditya.shevade · 10-10-2007, 06:09 PM

^^ nope, I think he means use KDE/Gnome instead of fluxbox..

mehulved · 10-10-2007, 06:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gx_saurav

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

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.

praka123 · 10-10-2007, 07:01 PM

ratpoison,tooo small.wht abt twm?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twm

mehulved · 10-10-2007, 07:11 PM

I have used twm for a while but somehow ratpoison seems much better. It's so much configurable for using with only your keyboard. vi users would quite appreciate that.

gxsaurav · 10-10-2007, 08:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Desi-Tek.com

@gx_saurav like virtualization?

That & much more, number crunching, rendering, encoding & transcoding etc....People already have good enough hardware but they are always paranoid for resource usage, are resource ka karoge kya when they are sitting idle. KDE & GNome are good in usability terms, i mean features etc....I myself use XFCE in Zenwalk core which i m using on a external HD for cyber cafes etc but that is where it makes sense to use it. What is the point of being paranoid about resource usage when u have a fairly new computer?

Mehul, you say Ubuntu is a bit slow on your 2 GHz CPU, well...2 GHz is lot of power to run an OS if tailored with 512 MB RAM, why not compile the kernel & application packages of Ubuntu for the hardware u r using to get extra performance, u just have to do it once...or every 6 months when u upgrade the Distro

Quote:

^Nope he probably means anti-virus, anti-infection, disk defragement kinda softwares!

Thanx for adding your useless comment & troll attempt.

See, all I m saying that whats the point of using such window managers like Flubox which don't even come with a file manager. Why not use KDE Gnome etc which provide much more features which can be removed if the user wants, to make them slim & fast.

mediator · 10-10-2007, 09:55 PM

Ofcors u can add file managers to fluxbox and customize it to ur wishes. Its like saying whats the use of having Xp which doesn't comes with MS-Office and stability etc.

People generally want close to real time performances and a stable system. Thats where fluxbox comes into picture! U dont like it, dont use it...simple!