wa4chq Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 Hendon James just started a topic on PekWM, which looks interesting. He had also mentioned have fun with Fluxbox. I did to and managed to find a screenshot that I had from 2011 showing my desktop using Fluxbox. I'd spend hours/days getting it set up. Fun!! http://qsl.net/wa4chq/desktop2.jpg <<< click for larger picture Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 Antix base has Fluxbox as default. Full has Fluxbox too but Openbox as default. It's very good. http://antix.mepis.org/index.php?title=Main_Page 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturnian Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 I have an openSUSE 42.2 installation with KDE, but I've added Fluxbox to it. The first shot shows the default Fluxbox desktop; the second shot shows what it's looking like now. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa4chq Posted December 30, 2016 Author Share Posted December 30, 2016 Looks nice and clean, saturnian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedon James Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 I have an openSUSE 42.2 installation with KDE, but I've added Fluxbox to it. The first shot shows the default Fluxbox desktop; the second shot shows what it's looking like now. I like the clean, elegant look also. I'm always trying to balance "clean & elegant" versus "easily accessible & productive". I like your menu transparency! Is that using fluxbox built-in pseudo-transparency, compton, or transparent background *.png menu files? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 Oh, what the hay... My turn! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 Ooops! Thought this was the screenshot thread. Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturnian Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 Is that using fluxbox built-in pseudo-transparency, compton, or transparent background *.png menu files? Fluxbox's pseudo-transparency. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedon James Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 Ooops! Thought this was the screenshot thread. Sorry. No worries! Feel free to download fluxbox, substitute it for the XFCE window manager while keeping the XFCE skin, and re-submit for consideration! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 Hmmm... nah. Waaay too lazy these days. Besides, I just recently lost a week of my life getting this system up and running. Just the thought of downloading, building, installing, debugging something new makes me sleepy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedon James Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 Is that using fluxbox built-in pseudo-transparency, compton, or transparent background *.png menu files? Fluxbox's pseudo-transparency. how did you get the transparency effect on the menu, but not the toolbar? or is there transparency on the toolbar, but the black background makes it appear opaque? You're the character responsible for hooking me on fluxbox, so maybe you can help...i'd like to have transparency on rootmenu, but nothing else. transparency in rootmenu/fluxbox/transparency affects all fluxbox components; alpha settings in menu config seem to have no effect; and a semi-transparent *.png menu background created in GIMP looks very washed out. Any thoughts on how to accomplish what I'm looking for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturnian Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 how did you get the transparency effect on the menu, but not the toolbar? or is there transparency on the toolbar, but the black background makes it appear opaque? I didn't do much, just changed a couple of things. My transparency settings, in the Fluxbox Configuration menu: Transparency: Force Pseudo-Transparency - on Focused Window Alpha: 255 Unfocused Window Alpha: 255 Menu Alpha: 200 Toolbar: Alpha: 255 I think it's possible that some Fluxbox styles might not work as expected with Fluxbox pseudo-transparency, but don't quote me on that. Anyway, I'm currently using the "bora_black" style here in openSUSE. I'm using the fbsetbg -r command in the ~/.fluxbox/init file to pick a random wallpaper from my wallpapers directory when Fluxbox starts. I have feh installed. Hope something there helps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedon James Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 how did you get the transparency effect on the menu, but not the toolbar? or is there transparency on the toolbar, but the black background makes it appear opaque? I didn't do much, just changed a couple of things. My transparency settings, in the Fluxbox Configuration menu: Transparency: Force Pseudo-Transparency - on Focused Window Alpha: 255 Unfocused Window Alpha: 255 Menu Alpha: 200 Toolbar: Alpha: 255 I think it's possible that some Fluxbox styles might not work as expected with Fluxbox pseudo-transparency, but don't quote me on that. Anyway, I'm currently using the "bora_black" style here in openSUSE. I'm using the fbsetbg -r command in the ~/.fluxbox/init file to pick a random wallpaper from my wallpapers directory when Fluxbox starts. I have feh installed. Hope something there helps! aha! i tend to look to the file first....like commenting out the toolbar in the init file. Following that logic, I was working way too hard, trying to change alpha settings in style text file with menu.alpha: xxx i completely forgot about the rootmenu settings option(s). doh! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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