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In Unix

Unix

Unix is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of American Telephone & Telegraph employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson , Dennis Ritchie, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna....
computing, Fluxbox is an X window manager

X window manager

An X window manager is a window manager which runs on top of the X Window System, a windowing system mainly used on Unix-like systems.Unlike the Mac OS and Microsoft Windows platforms, which have historically provided a vendor-controlled, fixed set of ways to control how windows and paned windows display on a Computer display, and how the...
based on Blackbox

Blackbox

In Unix computing, Blackbox is a X window manager for the X Window System.Blackbox has specific design goals, and some functionality is provided only through other applications....
0.61.1. It aims to be lightweight and customizable, and has minimal support for graphical icons

Icon (computing)

On computer displays, a computer icon is a small pictogram. Icons have been used to supplement the normal alphanumerics of the computer. Modern computers now can handle bitmapped graphics on the display terminal, so the icons are widely used to assist users....
. Its user interface

User interface

The user interface is the aggregate of means by which people—the User s—Interaction with the system—a particular machine, device, computer program or other complex tools....
has only a taskbar

Taskbar

In computing, the taskbar is a term for an application desktop bar which is used to launch and monitor applications. Microsoft incorporated a taskbar in Windows 95 and it has been a defining aspect of Microsoft Windows's graphical user interface ever since....
and a menu that is accessible by right-clicking on the desktop. All basic configurations are controlled by text file

Text file

A text file is a kind of computer file that is structured as a sequence of line . A text file exists within a computer file system. The end of a text file is often denoted by placing one or more special characters, known as an end-of-file marker, after the last line in a text file....
s, including the construction of menus and the mapping of keybindings.

Fluxbox can show some eye candy

Eye candy

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In Unix

Unix

X window manager

Blackbox

Icon (computing)

User interface

Taskbar

Text file

Eye candy

The term Eye Candy or eye candy can refer to one of the following:*Visual appeal*Eye Candy , an album by Mis-Teeq*Eye Candy, a plugin for Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Fireworks that adds new filter effects....
: colors, gradients, borders, and several other basic appearance attributes can be specified. Recent versions support rounded corners and graphical elements. Effects managers such as Xcompmgr and transset-df can add true transparency to desktop elements and windows. Enhancements can also be provided by using iDesk

IDesk

iDesk is a minimalist computer program used in conjunction with X window managers to draw icon on the Desktop metaphor. iDesk has been in development since 2003 and is under the BSD licenses....
or , or the ROX Desktop

ROX Desktop

The ROX Desktop is a desktop environment based on the ROX-Filer file manager. Files are loaded by drag and drop them to an application from the filer, and saved by dragging back to the filer....
. Fluxbox also has several features Blackbox lacks, including tabbed windows

Tabbed document interface

In the area of graphical user interfaces, a tabbed document interface is one that allows multiple documents to be contained within a single window , using tab s to navigate between them....
and a configurable titlebar.

Because of its small memory footprint and quick loading time, Fluxbox is popular in many Live CD

Live CD

A live CD or live DVD is a CD or DVD containing a booting computer operating system. Live CDs are unique in that they have the ability to run a complete, modern operating system on a computer lacking Computer_storage , such as a hard disk drive....
s such as Knoppix STD

Knoppix STD

Knoppix STD was a Live CD Linux distribution based on Knoppix that focused on computer security tools. It included GNU General Public License licensed tools in the following categories: authentication, password cracking, encryption, computer forensics, Firewall , Honeypot s, intrusion detection system, network utilities, Penetration , packet...
and GParted

GParted

GParted is a GTK+ frontend to GNU Parted and the official GNOME Partition Editor application.It is used for creating, deleting, resizing, moving, checking and copying Partition , and the file systems on them....
. It was the default window manager of Damn Small Linux

Damn Small Linux

Damn Small Linux or DSL is a computer operating system for the x86 architecture family of personal computers. It is Free software under the terms of its main license the GNU GPL....
, but was replaced with JWM

JWM

JWM is a window manager for the X Window System written by Joe Wingbermuehle. JWM is written in C and uses only Xlib at a minimum. Support for the following can be added as compile-time options:...
since the release of Damn Small Linux 4.0. It is currently the default window manager of , a distribution based on MEPIS

MEPIS

MEPIS is a GNU/Linux distribution, distributed as Live CDs that can be installed onto a hard disk drive. The most popular MEPIS distribution is SimplyMEPIS....
and designed for old computers, PCFluxboxOS, a remaster of PCLinuxOS

PCLinuxOS

PCLinuxOS, often abbreviated as PCLOS, is a desktop operating system. It is a free operating system for personal computers aimed at ease of use....
, and LinguasOS, a Live CD

Live CD

Fluxbuntu

Fluxbuntu is a lightweight operating system which uses the Fluxbox window manager and is based on Ubuntu. By contrast, Ubuntu uses the GNOME desktop environment, Kubuntu uses KDE, and Xubuntu uses Xfce, all of which are somewhat more demanding of computer memory and resources....
, Ubuntu with Fluxbox and lightweight applications, was released in October 2007.

Customization

Customization is done by editing configuration files in the .fluxbox subdirectory in the user's home directory. Keyboard shortcuts are stored in the ~/.fluxbox/keys file, menu layout is in the ~/.fluxbox/menu file, everything that's run at startup is kept in the ~/.fluxbox/startup file, and the fluxbox configuration file is held at ~/.fluxbox/init.

Each file has its own syntax so check the fluxbox documentation before editing any of the files in the .fluxbox directory.

Useful Tools

: A lightweight pager.
: Fluxbox Configuration Utitlity.
: Set wallpaper for Fluxbox.
: A window manager and workspace enhancer and integrator.
: A slit pager.

External links

[irc://irc.freenode.net/fluxbox #fluxbox] on freenode

Fluxbox

Customization

Useful Tools

See also

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