@dannypsnl From , this one was close in spirit to the result
fluxbox.org/screenshots/
#fluxbox

I don't know how the project is going though. Years I no longer use it. But if use linux the way I do, it's probably thanks to this project.

I'd say it was similar to xmonad in spirit, but with instead 2 or 3 specialized DSL, for:
- keyboard shortcuts
- menus
- windows
- workspaces

I can't remember others. I'd say there were 4 parts in the configuration.

And you'd plug things for access bar. But with time I even dropped the access bar
Then I went for xmonad, which I really liked. Both #fluxbox and #xmonad made me adopt a workspace+terminal centered workflow. Now that I have the habit, the default gnome install suffice me. But it was forged in fluxbox/xmonad daily practice.

It is important for me: it's mostly because of the perfect aesthetics that I switched to Linux entirely -> I could have MY OWN totally my OWN desktop

This after a 100th windows update failing in the middle and n-th time leaving my system broken: the time too much -> not wanting to reinstall everything

The user screen desktop that made me choose fluxbox/openbox was based on this: with menu and buttons in the same shade

I worked facing a zen ocean with transparent terminals

The contrast with Microsoft VIsual Studio is without comparison possible

Not a critic.

I just remarked, seeing this post, that it is been years I no longer use any desktop short cut. Not a single one.

I think it started with fluxbox, then xmonad, and I have kept the habit on gnome.

I prefer have a terminal centered workflow. And multitude of adapted pre-mashed terminal environements. Even if it launches a GUI in the end.

I find desktop shortcuts super messy.

And it alters the beauty of my desktop background images: it was probably the first reason I started this with #fluxbox

Krutonium://

2026-05-06 02:23:20

NixOS Home Manager users may find this useful!

It lets you have .desktop files, basically shortcuts, to any application you can run via nix, without actually having to install them. They're pulled in at runtime, using the same magic as you use when doing nix run.

git.krutonium.ca/Krutonium/Nix…

#Nix #NixOS #HomeManager #Linux #FlakeParts

NixOS/modules/users/krutonium-hm/dynamic-apps.nix at main

^{Krutonium's Forgejo Service}

SSD not CSD

Forced

Thank you for the valuable feedback. I've already checked out the site on mobile; it looks very promising.
It is a very neat idea to force Server Side Decorations

Sources;
aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk…

tromjaro.com/

#GUI #TUI #SSD #CSD #forced #design #40years #fvwm #twm #Xorg #programming #technology #DE #desktop #environment #WM #window #manager #FluxBox #XFCE #KDE #GNOME #design

@tio

@Dendrobatus_Azureus @trom

trom

2021-10-08 02:37:11

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# CSD
Reading up on CSD, client side decorations

Client side decorations give a lot of headaches when they're not improperly implemented many of these mods should just stay with SSD, server side decorations

Quote
> GtkHeaderBar merges the title bar, menu bar and tool bar into one unified horizontal bar to give more space to the application content, potentially reducing the amount of wasted space by showing empty bars.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client-s…

#GUI #TUI #CSD #design #40years #fvwm #twm #Xorg #programming #technology #DE #desktop #environment #WM #window #manager #FluxBox #XFCE #KDE #GNOME #design

Not a joke: next summer (no time before then), I'm going to try vibe-coding an X11 window manager like #Fluxbox but with #emacs style multi-cord keyboard shortcuts.

What I really want are emacs shortcuts for #Firefox --- C-s for search, C-x b to change tabs, etc. And turn off freaking C-w to close windows. On #Dvorak, C-w and C-v are right next to each other. C-w is 'cut' in emacs but close window in FF. I frequently close the freaking Firefox window by accident!

#programming #linux

I'm still amazed by the power / speed yet paradoxical simplicity of FluxBox

I've seen many Window and Desktop Managers in the past decades.
For as far as I remember; this is the only Window manager FluxBox, which enables multiple monitor background choosing in the login requester screens out of the box, I repeat OUT OF THE BOX

#FluxBox #WM #DM #WindowManager #DesktopManager #DesktopEnvironment #POSIX #OpenSource

I've easily & smoothly configured KDE Konnect to work in Fluxbox WM

#FluxBox #KDE #Xorg #Desktop #Environment #OpenSource #POSIX #GNU #is #not #UNIX #Linux #freeBSD #KDEKonnect #Android

I run all versions of MX Linux here. Xfce KDE & the other version.

I can tell you that a tremendous amount of work has been done to make it work smoothly without systemD.

The small errors I get are never ever in the realm of systemD

They're always somewhere else where I can troubleshoot and fix

#MXLinux #Xfce #KDE #FluxBox #Linux #distro #OpenSource #POSIX

At this moment I'm roughly tuning a very nice FluxBox Desktop in an OpenSource POSIX driven OS.
I'm working on tuning my Desktops Environments in such a way that it doesn't matter whether I run them in Linux or *BSD

That way I'll just fire up the Operating System inject my own configuration for the desktop environment fire up X.org and then start working

FluxBox has been a favorite window / desktop manager of mine a couple of decades ago.

Since it has been written efficient it's blazingly fast
I combine tools that I love from Xfce with FluxBox so that my muscle memory for shortcuts can be used in a super smooth manner

#FluxBox #Xorg #Desktop #Environment #OpenSource #POSIX #GNU #is #not #UNIX #Linux

Since this command...

`xfce4-screenshooter -S -d 2 --window -s "$HOME/Pictures/$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S)_Screenshot2.png"`

...segfaults in fluxbox atm I did not bother with a screenshot, because xfce4-screenshooter rocks way too much to use another one

#FluxBox #Xorg #Desktop #Environment #OpenSource #POSIX #GNU #is #not #UNIX #Linux

Dug in the manpages to find that middle mouse is key to adding workspaces in fluxbox. I had forgotten that button since I hardly need it in XFce which is my main DE & KDE wich I started reusing after having left a couple of decades

fluxbox.org/help/man-fluxbox/

#FluxBox #WM #DM #fast #POSIX #freeBSD #ghostBSD #Linux

My TTh #AdultESOL class finished Thursday. My SSu class finished today! I have two weekends off and have my TTh nights back (not doing that class again anytime soon - just too much during the regular k-12 school year).

So, of course, the first thing I did this afternoon was have #ChatGPT help me come up with #Mozilla #Firefox userChrome.js to make the keyboard shortcuts more like #emacs.

Also created a script to grab webcam frames for #conky to display (#fluxbox #linux) on the desktop.