OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20243/Fluxbox_1_1_0_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sat, 25 May 2013 16:16:54 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Compositing http://www.osnews.com/thread?329031 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329031 Any hope for Fluxbox supporting basic compositing stuff (at least wall-like and expose-like plugins)?

I know it goes a bit against the minimalism of the WM, but I loved Fluxbox a lot, and having it working with some *simple and useful* compositing would be killer stuff for me. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (devurandom) Comments Comment by Vanger http://www.osnews.com/thread?329036 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329036 If you experience problems with tarball (windowmenu issue, fix is here - http://phpfi.com/350005 ), use git. It's ok.
git-clone git://git.fluxbox.org/fluxbox.git

Also, syntax has changed, so better delete or adjust your custom config files.Edited 2008-09-03 12:03 UTC Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Vanger) Comments RE: Compositing http://www.osnews.com/thread?329038 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329038 You could always use xcompmgr. You only get shadows, translucency and fade-ins, but that's more than enough for me personally. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (siride) Comments Comment by TaterSalad http://www.osnews.com/thread?329045 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329045 Oh Fluxbox how I've missed you. This was one of the windows managers I would run on an old laptop (200mhz 96mb ram) and it would give me all the functionality I needed. Since upgrading to a beefier laptop I haven't used it. Please forgive me Fluxbox. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TaterSalad) Comments Probably a development release? http://www.osnews.com/thread?329133 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329133 I am in fluxbox-announce list and in the top of 1.1.0 announce shows:

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New devel release!

Download it here:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fluxbox/fluxbox-1.1.0.tar.gz
(md5sum: ad6656594f013cf818b989a5708b71c9 )
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fluxbox/fluxbox-1.1.0.tar.bz2
(md5sum: b9fc486c1abeea0ad91c77439c20b092 )

News in 1.1.0:
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The 1.1.0 tarball doesn't work for me, I get installation failure because of missing windowmenu. It's fixed in git, so they probably will release a new tarball sometime soon.

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commit a72eeeb2ceb6d5183abb24ed36c202079fe0fa42
Author: Mark Tiefenbruck
Date: Wed Sep 3 09:36:44 2008 -0400

add windowmenu to dist package
-------------- Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mezz) Comments kb_shortcuts & dockapps http://www.osnews.com/thread?329137 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329137 Anyone know a window manager where you can show & hide your dockapps using a key binding?

Window Maker (clip) was able to do that, and it was an in-built feature in Ion. And it's, of course, also possible in FVWM, provided you know how to do a bit of scripting. But Window Maker and Ion seem to be things of the past. I haven't yet found any way to do something similar in either fluxbox or openbox.

Is it possible to bind the showing & hiding of dockapps to a key binding in fluxbox? I know how to do it in FVWM, but I'd also like to do the same thing in fluxbox or openbox. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (da_Chicken) Comments Comment by mr_manny http://www.osnews.com/thread?329145 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329145 started using fluxbox years ago and never looked back.

awesome WM, regarless of processor speed.

congrats on the new release :beer: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mr_manny) Comments RE[2]: Compositing http://www.osnews.com/thread?329156 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329156 'nuff said.

Not sure what the "Wall" is (Vista feature?) but exposé, although very pretty, isn't usable. You cannot rely on muscle memory to find a window; you have to visually identify the window. Windows change size and position and are rarely in the same place all the time, every time. Same with the dock since it changes size.

A lot of people think that "eye candy" is only to look good. Although it does look good I disagree that it has no functional value. Drop shadows help to differentiate windows and help people mentally break the limited space on your monitor apart into individual tasks or applications. The same goes for fading in and out as that can help you spot windows as they open and close, often something that can lead to confusion when things just "disappear".

Although it's kind of awkward at first "virtual desktops" are a key feature of any OS for me. The "Cube" visualization/metaphor helps here but for new users or people who simply don't multi-task it isn't really useful which I think is something has kept Apple and Microsoft from implementing itâ€Â"until Apple did in Leopard anyway. This is a big deal to me with all the *nix window managers that I love. When you've got two monitors filled with windows for graphics applications, sound editors/mastering applications or anything else it's nice to be able to separate tasks or like-applications into different desktops. Keeps things clean and easy to work with. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DittoBox) Comments RE[3]: Compositing http://www.osnews.com/thread?329169 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329169 What's with all the unprintable characters in your post? Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BSDfan) Comments RE[2]: Compositing http://www.osnews.com/thread?329192 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329192
You could always use xcompmgr. You only get shadows, translucency and fade-ins, but that's more than enough for me personally.


There is also the 3d cube effect:

http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php

It is a bit slow on my laptop ;) Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Isolationist) Comments RE: Comment by mr_manny http://www.osnews.com/thread?329213 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329213 Agreed!

Just installed FreeBSD 7.0 on a prehistoric laptop here (only 60 Mb RAM) and Fluxbox runs beautifully! Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (obsidian) Comments RE[4]: Compositing http://www.osnews.com/thread?329271 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329271 Tried to use an em dash. Encoding is such that it doesn't translate well. Should've used the XML entity — instead. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DittoBox) Comments Comment by pinochet http://www.osnews.com/thread?329299 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329299 Nice to see old neat things get new life! Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pinochet) Comments