I have a wife and two kids; my ears are always burning   

Otherwise, no problem, thank you for providing the community with VSIDO and the forum.

back on topic; after two years or so, a new version of jwm was released last week:



Never really gave this wm a go; but it's light and snappy. If I can figure out how to manipulate window resize and move incrementally with key bindings I may keep it around for a while.

Configuration and theme are done in a single configuration file in xml format (like openbox) and default is to have a button on the tray for "show desktop" (ew's ears are burining now   )

@ ew - yes, post the config for that bottom tint2

@ jedi - vlad studio has some excellent walls

back on topic -

^ that's cool.

Quote from: ew on January 17, 2014, 02:26:03 AM
@PackRat

That`s fine. I haven`t got that far yet. I`m working on appearance and functionality, trying to get the tint2 and the menus, as I want them. But there were so many tint2-configs in the system that I got a bit confused, But now it`s kind of sorted out. Except adjusting which layers the different windows and panels should belong to, in order to give me the result that I want The next thing is to figure out how Show/Toggle desktop works in fluxbox

To show desktop add this key binding to ~/.fluxbox/keys:

Mod4 F12 :ToggleCmd {ShowDesktop} {DeIconify all originquiet}               # Mod4 is the Win key on my laptop

Mod4 + F12 will switch (Toggle) betwenn ShowDesktop and DeIconify all; change "Mod4 F12" to whatever key binding you want to use, leave the rest as is. As far as I know you can TooleCmd through as many commands (scripts) as you want - for example, I think you'd be able to cycle through 6 conky configurations/layouts if you wanted to.

Here are the all the various commands for key bindings - http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php?title=Keyboard_shortcuts#Currently_Focused_Window_Commands
The fluxbox wiki is pretty good.

Sure - just some simple edits to the icons_only6 example file if you download the source:

# Tint2 config file
# Generated by tintwizard (http://code.google.com/p/tintwizard/)
# For information on manually configuring tint2 see http://code.google.com/p/tint2/wiki/Configure

# Background definitions
# ID 1
rounded = 0
border_width = 0
background_color = #000000 0
border_color = #FFFFFF 0

# ID 2
rounded = 5
border_width = 0
background_color = #FFFFFF 60
border_color = #FFFFFF 49

# ID 3
rounded = 5
border_width = 0
background_color = #FFFFFF 24
border_color = #FFFFFF 69

# ID 4
rounded = 5
border_width = 0
background_color = #BDBDBD 80
border_color = #FFFFFF 69

# Panel
panel_items = T
panel_monitor = all
panel_position = top left vertical
panel_size = 640 48
panel_margin = 12 84
panel_padding = 2 2 10
panel_dock = 0
wm_menu = 0
panel_layer = bottom
panel_background_id = 1

# Panel Autohide
autohide = 0
autohide_show_timeout = 0.3
autohide_hide_timeout = 2
autohide_height = 4
strut_policy = none

# Taskbar
taskbar_mode = multi_desktop
taskbar_padding = 1 1 6
taskbar_background_id = 1
taskbar_active_background_id = 1

# Tasks
urgent_nb_of_blink = 20
task_icon = 1
task_text = 0
task_centered = 1
task_maximum_size = 48 48
task_padding = 1 1
task_background_id = 1
task_active_background_id = 1
task_urgent_background_id = 1
task_iconified_background_id = 1
task_tooltip = 1

# Task Icons
task_icon_asb = 40 0 0
task_active_icon_asb = 100 0 0
task_urgent_icon_asb = 100 0 0
task_iconified_icon_asb = 40 0 0

# Fonts
task_font = sans 7
task_font_color = #FFFFFF 69
task_active_font_color = #FFFFFF 84
task_urgent_font_color = #EC9B9B 84
task_iconified_font_color = #FFFFFF 69
font_shadow = 1

# System Tray
systray = 1
systray_padding = 4 4 5
systray_sort = left2right
systray_background_id = 1
systray_icon_size = 16
systray_icon_asb = 100 0 0

# Clock
time1_format = %k:%M
time1_font = sans bold 8
time2_format = %h.%e
time2_font = sans 6
clock_font_color = #FFFFFF 75
clock_tooltip = %A %d %B
clock_padding = 4 2
clock_background_id = 1
clock_rclick_command = zenity --calendar

# Tooltips
tooltip_padding = 3 2
tooltip_show_timeout = 0.9
tooltip_hide_timeout = 0.3
tooltip_background_id = 4
tooltip_font = sans 8
tooltip_font_color = #000000 89

# Mouse
mouse_middle = none
mouse_right = close
mouse_scroll_up = toggle
mouse_scroll_down = iconify

# Battery
battery = 0
battery_low_status = 10
battery_low_cmd = notify-send "battery low"
battery_hide = 98
bat1_font = sans bold 8
bat2_font = sans 6
battery_font_color = #FFFFFF 75
battery_padding = 4 2
battery_background_id = 1

# End of config

1366x768 laptop resolution:



I'm thinking that the height/width are not independent of one another, set one and the other calculated - set appropriate one depending on if the panel will be horizontal or vertical. Had to remember that it's an icon embedded in a task button - text hidden in this scenario - not an icon, so the maximum available icon size is selected based on the height/width, panel width, and paddings.

Was setting up tint2 as a pager of sorts -



one issue I'm having is getting larger icons. I tried setting different panel widths and paddings, but the icons weren't expanding in the vertical. Am I missing something obvious? I was trying to get 48x48 icons.

Edit - never mind, figured it out.

Pertinent section -

Quotetask_maximum_size = width height
        width is used with horizontal panel. width = 0 to get full taskbar width
        height is used with vertical panel

was misinterpreting how that worked.

It's actually a nice app.

You can theme/configure it from the command line or set defaults in .Xresources.

Still messing around. Have tint2 set up as icons only so it acts as a pager/icon box of sorts:

@jed - nice!

Messing around - swapped out conky for xosview - one of those lesser known apps. xfce4-terminal with no titlebar, scrollbar:

Quote from: ew on January 15, 2014, 11:51:51 PM

Quote from: PackRat on January 15, 2014, 08:01:37 PM

QuoteFluxbox isn`t all that much to learn. But the config are a bit different from openbox. In openbox I pretty much did everything in menu.xml and rc.xml. Flux has other config-files, like that apps-file and the keys-file. It isn`t a steap learning curve, but it requires a tiny bit of effort, and the worst thing about being a Crunchbanger, is that #! makes you way to comfortable and lazy.

If you're more comfortable with fewer config files, the fluxbox menu, keys, and apps file can be combined into one file - i.e ConfigFluxbox - just keep the sections discrete and edit the ~/.fluxbox/init file to source that file for the menu, key bindings, and per-app settings.

The menu and apps settings will still auto-update, but you still need to restart fluxbox for changes to the key bindings to work.

I've never tried to add in the overlay, slitlist, or windowmenu file to a master config - don't use those too often.

Thanks. Will look into that as soon as I start to configure the install. Initially I will probably try to do it with the config-files as they are now, and see if I could get used to it. But it nice to know that i can merge the config-files into a master config.

I take it back - combining these files is a bad idea. Worked yesterday; fluxbox is hanging today.

^ that's the entire init file for fluxbox.

this is the file that controls the windows in the slit -

session.slitlistFile: ~/.fluxbox/slitlist

in a terminal -

man fluxbox | grep -A5 slitlist

will give you the details

The slit has it's own parameters that can be added to any fluxbox style.

QuoteFluxbox isn`t all that much to learn. But the config are a bit different from openbox. In openbox I pretty much did everything in menu.xml and rc.xml. Flux has other config-files, like that apps-file and the keys-file. It isn`t a steap learning curve, but it requires a tiny bit of effort, and the worst thing about being a Crunchbanger, is that #! makes you way to comfortable and lazy.

If you're more comfortable with fewer config files, the fluxbox menu, keys, and apps file can be combined into one file - i.e ConfigFluxbox - just keep the sections discrete and edit the ~/.fluxbox/init file to source that file for the menu, key bindings, and per-app settings.

The menu and apps settings will still auto-update, but you still need to restart fluxbox for changes to the key bindings to work.

I've never tried to add in the overlay, slitlist, or windowmenu file to a master config - don't use those too often.

^^ got that right - I was pretty much the same way with fvwm.

@oday -

never used this one myself -

http://packages.debian.org/sid/x11/fdpowermon

but should work just fine with fbpanel or lxpanel system tray. Works just fine with fluxbox native iconbar and systray -

No problem -

I was doing some more research on this; looks like others have had to install some additional wimax tools to get it working - none of which seem to be in the repos; but sources available on 3rd party sites. Also saw some references to using network-manager since it has wimax support (some posts  - indicate that wimax support needs to be compiled into network-manager with --enable-wimax flag).

There are also references to installing the wimax stack - if that is not default, you might have to compile a custom kernel.

Of course, there is no frackin' HowTo for all this on the Debin wiki or user forum.

Good luck, Amigo.

^ that will be cool

Sooner or later, I get back to using fvwm -

All fvwm:



with lxpanel: