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The Debian menu system - How to create menus for TWM, OpenBox, FluxBox, etc
2008-05-10 17:24:00 The Debian menu systems really saves you a lot of time, when you are trying to find a new installed software. Yes you can run the applications from the command line, as I was doing these days on my Laptop with Fluxbox, but if you are using Debian or Ubuntu you can automatically create the menus using the Debian Menu System. To install it (if you are using Debian might be installed) sudo aptitude install menu then run sudo update-menus and you will have your menus recreated, (or created) with all the available programs in it, this will work for almost all X windows managers, it is usually disabled in Gnome but you can go to: System->Preferences->Main Menu and enable the Debian menu under Applications. If you have just installed it, you may need to log out and log in again, to be able to see it. Now every time a new program is installed, it will automatically added to the menu, unless you run update-menus as a normal user, and not as root.
The Debian menu system - How to create menus for TWM, OpenBox, FluxBox, etc
2008-05-10 17:24:00 The Debian menu systems really saves you a lot of time, when you are trying to find a new installed software. Yes you can run the applications from the command line, as I was doing these days on my Laptop with Fluxbox, but if you are using Debian or Ubuntu you can automatically create the menus using the Debian Menu System. To install it (if you are using Debian might be installed) sudo aptitude install menu then run sudo update-menus and you will have your menus recreated, (or created) with all the available programs in it, this will work for almost all X windows managers, it is usually disabled in Gnome but you can go to: System->Preferences->Main Menu and enable the Debian menu under Applications. If you have just installed it, you may need to log out and log in again, to be able to see it. Now every time a new program is installed, it will automatically added to the menu, unless you run update-menus as a normal user, and not as root.
Fedora and Fluxbox
2008-02-25 02:05:00 Just like The light weight Debian we can do the same with Fedora, I will use Fedora 8 and Fluxbox to install a light Desktop Linux. First start the installation CD, I have chosen the text environment as, this is supposed to be a light installation, I am doing this on VMware with 128 Kbytes of memory assigned. Once you get to the package selection screen be sure to have something like this: So you can select later which software to install, then on the next window, when you are selecting individual packages select these: Administration tools Development tools Editors Hardware support Text-based Internet Once you have finished the installation, you will have a very light Fedora, with only the minimal software installed on it, you can no use the ntsysv to disable the daemons you will not use, like bluetooth, ISDN, CUPS in my case. Read this great post to decide which daemons you need and which you do not. Once that is finished, lets start installing the X environment. yum install x...
Fedora and Fluxbox
2008-02-25 02:05:00 Just like The light weight Debian we can do the same with Fedora, I will use Fedora 8 and Fluxbox to install a light Desktop Linux. First start the installation CD, I have chosen the text environment as, this is supposed to be a light installation, I am doing this on VMware with 128 Kbytes of memory assigned. Once you get to the package selection screen be sure to have something like this: So you can select later which software to install, then on the next window, when you are selecting individual packages select these: Administration tools Development tools Editors Hardware support Text-based Internet Once you have finished the installation, you will have a very light Fedora, with only the minimal software installed on it, you can no use the ntsysv to disable the daemons you will not use, like bluetooth, ISDN, CUPS in my case. Read this great post to decide which daemons you need and which you do not. Once that is finished, lets start installing the X environment. yum install x...
Enabling sound in my Light weight Debian - Fluxbox Laptop
2008-02-17 21:09:00 Continuing with my Lightweight Debian configuration, today I wanted to add sound and music to it, I have 4 Gigs of MP3, and I needed to hear them. Maybe the best option is mpg123 which is command line mp3 player, but today I wanted to try audacious, which looks a lot like XMMS although it is not a fork of it, you can see some good screenshots of it. To install the sound in my Debian first I needed to install alsa-utils sudo aptitude install alsa-utils And then install audacious sudo aptitude install audacious after that everything was running perfect and I was listening to my favorite music. Do not forget to check also some of its features
Enabling sound in my Light weight Debian - Fluxbox Laptop
2008-02-17 21:09:00 Continuing with my Lightweight Debian configuration, today I wanted to add sound and music to it, I have 4 Gigs of MP3, and I needed to hear them. Maybe the best option is mpg123 which is command line mp3 player, but today I wanted to try audacious, which looks a lot like XMMS although it is not a fork of it, you can see some good screenshots of it. To install the sound in my Debian first I needed to install alsa-utils sudo aptitude install alsa-utils And then install audacious sudo aptitude install audacious after that everything was running perfect and I was listening to my favorite music. Do not forget to check also some of its features
Fluxbox and a transparent xTerm (aterm)
2008-02-09 21:32:00 If we are using Fluxbox because we need it to be lightweight it does not mean we can not have some eye candy on our Desktops. So if you want a cool terminal, a transparent one starting with your log on, it is real possible, we will need aterm Install it using your Distro package manager, I am using Debian so: sudo aptitude install aterm Aterm is real lightweight also, and looks great! after installing it, we will need to go and edit the $HOME/.fluxbox/startup, and add just this line on it: aterm -name aterm -sl 3000 -tr +sb -si -sk -sh 60 -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*--120-*-*-c-*-iso8859-2 -g 130x50-0+0 -bl & It should go just before the line exec /usr/bin/fluxbox These are the explanations for each used option -sl: Is the scroll buffer, because there are no scroll bars you can use the mouse wheel -tr: Enables transparency +sb: Turns off the scrollbar -sh: make the terminal a little bit faded. (darkened) so you can read better the contents, depending on your wallpaper you...
Fluxbox and a transparent xTerm (aterm)
2008-02-09 21:32:00 If we are using Fluxbox because we need it to be lightweight it does not mean we can not have some eye candy on our Desktops. So if you want a cool terminal, a transparent one starting with your log on, it is real possible, we will need aterm Install it using your Distro package manager, I am using Debian so: sudo aptitude install aterm Aterm is real lightweight also, and looks great! after installing it, we will need to go and edit the $HOME/.fluxbox/startup, and add just this line on it: aterm -name aterm -sl 3000 -tr +sb -si -sk -sh 60 -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*--120-*-*-c-*-iso8859-2 -g 130x50-0+0 -bl & It should go just before the line exec /usr/bin/fluxbox These are the explanations for each used option -sl: Is the scroll buffer, because there are no scroll bars you can use the mouse wheel -tr: Enables transparency +sb: Turns off the scrollbar -sh: make the terminal a little bit faded. (darkened) so you can read better the contents, depending on your wallpaper you...
Setting the wallpaper on Fluxbox
2008-02-09 15:26:00 To start Fluxbox with a wallpaper, you will have to edit some configuration files, and have a image viewer installed on you machine, not all of them works, so consider using one of these two. Esetroot or feh. To install Esetroot run: sudo aptitude install eterm Now run: fbsetbg -i You should see something like this: feh is a nice wallpapersetter. You won't have any problems. Now lets edit your ./fluxbox/init file with your favorite text editor (mine is vim with colors), and add this line if it is not present. session.styleOverlay: ~/.fluxbox/overlay Now create a file ~/.fluxbox/overlay and inside it put this lines: background: aspect background.pixmap: /path/to/your/file.jpg Now just restart fluxbox and you are done.
How to start programs with FluxBox at startup
2008-02-04 01:24:00 If you are using FluxBox and want to start programs when you log into FluxBox, you will need to edit the file $home/.fluxbox/startup. As you can see each user will have its own startup script, so each one of them can have their own programs starting at login time. The startup script may look like this: # fluxbox startup-script: # # Lines starting with a '#' are ignored. # You can set your favourite wallpaper here if you don't want # to do it from your style. # # fbsetbg -f /home/ggarron/pictures/wallpape-r.png # # This sets a black background /usr/bin/fbsetroot -solid black # This shows the fluxbox-splash-screen # fbsetbg -C /usr/share/fluxbox/splash.jpg # Other examples. Check man xset for details. # # Turn off beeps: # xset -b # # Increase the keyboard repeat-rate: # xset r rate 195 35 # # Your own fonts-dir: # xset +fp "/home/ggarron/.fonts" # # Your favourite mouse cursor: # xsetroot -cursor_name right_ptr # # Change your keymap: # xmodmap "/home/ggarron/.Xmodmap" # A...
The perfect light Debian with Fluxbox
2008-02-03 20:35:00 As I have mentioned in previous posts, I use to work on Desktops PCs, one in my office and one in my Home, I use my Laptop (an old IBM T30) only when I travel, and as I like to travel light, this also goes for my Laptop, so here I will show how do I configured my Laptop with Debian Lenny, and just the necesary software for my job while abroad. First, I made a list of the necessary software: - Firefox - Thunderbird - Word Processor - Spread Sheet - Skype - MSN chat client - MP3 player - Vmware This is for work and fun, now lets install first the system The base system I started with The base system of Debian Etch, but be sure to install only the base system not the Desktop environment. Once this is done, we start making the real work, first, I prefer to have Lenny instead of Etch so upgrade to Lenny Adding me to sudoers I do not like to switch to root, each time I need to perform administrative tasks, so I like to use sudo instead, to do this install sudo first: aptitude install sud...
How to add sub-menus to FluxBox
2008-02-02 16:16:00 I have started using FluxBox, which is an alternative to KDE or Gnome or XFCE, FluxBox is smaller than all the other three mentioned by me, and it is also faster, FluxBox is the Default windows manager for DSL (Damn small Linux). Well after this really small introduction, let's go to the point. To access the menu just right-click on the Desktop and you will see the menu of FluxBox, but if you want to add another application, like VMware you will have to edit the file $HOME/.fluxbox/menu with your favorite text editor, by default it should look like this: [begin] (fluxbox) [include] (/etc/X11/fluxbox/fluxbox-menu)- [end] Now if you want to add another menu [begin] (fluxbox) [include] (/etc/X11/fluxbox/fluxbox-menu)- [submenu] (Virtual) [exec] (Vmware) {vmware} [end] [end] If you want to add a sub-menu inside the first menu: [begin] (fluxbox) [include] (/etc/X11/fluxbox/fluxbox-menu)- [submenu] (Virtual) [exec] (Vmware) {vmware} [submenu] (other-...
Linux Mint Fluxbox Community Edition
2008-01-25 06:04:00 This is the first ever release of a Fluxbox-based Linux Mint Community Edition! What is Linux Mint Fluxbox Community Edition and what do the development team aim to achieve? Linux Mint Fluxbox CE aims to be lean and fast. It should be able to run on older hardware allowing people with weak to mediocre machines to ...
Linux Mint Fluxbox Community Edition
2008-01-25 05:05:00 This is the first ever release of a Fluxbox-based Linux Mint Community Edition! What is Linux Mint Fluxbox Community Edition and what do the development team aim to achieve? Linux Mint Fluxbox CE aims to be lean and fast. It should be able to run on older hardware allowing people with weak to mediocre machines to ...
Linux Mint Fluxbox Community Edition
2008-01-23 17:47:00 This is the first ever release of a Fluxbox-based Linux Mint Community Edition! What is Linux Mint Fluxbox Community Edition and what do the development team aim to achieve? Linux Mint Fluxbox CE aims to be lean and fast. It should be able to run on older hardware allowing people with weak to mediocre machines to ...
Linux Mint 4.0 Debian and Fluxbox Editions Released
2008-01-04 09:23:00 The Linux Mint team is proud to present the first beta version of Linux Mint 4.0 (Daryna) Fluxbox Community Edition and the first alpha version of Li1 Vote(s)
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Linux Mint Fluxbox Community Edition
2008-01-04 08:12:00 This is the first ever release of a Fluxbox-based Linux Mint Community Edition! What is Linux Mint Fluxbox Community Edition and what do the development team aim to achieve?Linux Mint Fluxbox CE aims to be lean and fast. It should be able to run on older hardware allowing people with weak to mediocre machines to enjoy the awesomeness of Linux Mint.Linux Mint Fluxbox CE aims to be easy to use. Wherever possible we provide comprehensive GUI tools catering for both new and veteran users.Linux Mint Fluxbox CE aims not only to play the part, we aim to look the part. Linux Mint is famous for looking slick and totally awesome, and we aim to please.The first BETA of Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna Fluxbox Community Edition was released. Maintained in Romania by Shane Joe Lazar, this edition replaces Gnome with Fluxbox to provide a much more lightweight operating system.The development team's goals meant they had to strike a very delicate balance between a minimalistic and an easy to use setup .Mint ...
Fluxbox 1.0 Release!
2007-10-16 02:03:00 Llegué tarde a la noticia =( , porfin este gestor de ventanas para X basado en Blackbox ha lanzado la versión 1.0 !!!Fluxbox es un gestor de ventanas muy liviano...ideal para hardware anticuado, pero es tan bueno que pude ser utilizado en tu PC actual :-)La lista de mejoras para este release incluye :Tabs en ventanas configurableIconbar (para las ventanas minimizadas)Con la ruedita del mouse cambia el escritorioBarra de título configurableSoporte completo para KDESoporte casi completo para GnomeExtensa cantidad de Hintsentre otras cosas....Hay un proyecto interesante que es Fluxbuntu, hechenle una miradita!
Fluxbox is finally 1.x
2007-10-09 14:01:00 For those lovers of a light Desktop, those lovers of Fluxbox, there are good news, it is finally released its 1.x stable version. Here is what its webpage is saying about this "A new stable release! Finally after almost four and a half years with 0.9.x release we got to 1.0.0! This release includes a lot of bugfixes, new styles, updated language support, better shaped corners nd much more. Grab it here! More info about the release here. We will soon update the entire webpage, so stay tuned!" Fluxbox is a complete Desktop for Linux, it has all features, but it does not eat all the memory that Gnome or KDE. in order to have installed on your Ubuntu / Debian system just run. sudo apt-get install fluxbox Check its webpage at: Fluxbox
Fluxbox is finally 1.x
2007-10-09 14:01:00 For those lovers of a light Desktop, those lovers of Fluxbox, there are good news, it is finally released its 1.x stable version. Here is what its webpage is saying about this "A new stable release! Finally after almost four and a half years with 0.9.x release we got to 1.0.0! This release includes a lot of bugfixes, new styles, updated language support, better shaped corners nd much more. Grab it here! More info about the release here. We will soon update the entire webpage, so stay tuned!" Fluxbox is a complete Desktop for Linux, it has all features, but it does not eat all the memory that Gnome or KDE. in order to have installed on your Ubuntu / Debian system just run. sudo apt-get install fluxbox Check its webpage at: Fluxbox
Fluxbox 1.0rc3
2007-04-02 16:10:00 E' stata rilasciata la terza ed ultima release candidate di Fluxbox 1.0, uno dei window manager più apprezzati nel panorama dei sistemi *nix per la sua leggerezza ed eleganza; la novità più gustosa di questa RC è il supporto ai pulsanti del mouse nella configurazione dei binding: questo si concretizza nella possibilità di utilizzare i tasti del mouse nelle scorciatoie da tastiera. Il changelog |
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