a new year, a new look

I recently added Fluxbox to my Arch setup, which I'd put in by using the Anarchy installer, as mentioned earlier. Xfce apps from the original installation are available in the Fluxbox menu, along with a collection of my favorites.

I'm using the tint2 panel (vertical, upper-left orientation, of course) instead of the Fluxbox toolbar. I got rid of the toolbar by de-selecting "Visible" in the "Toolbar" submenu of the configuration settings.

Also, I had to remove "systemtray" from the following line in the ~/.fluxbox/init file because tint2's system tray wasn't starting up with Fluxbox's systemtray running:

session.screen0.toolbar.tools:    prevworkspace, workspacename, nextworkspace, iconbar, systemtray, clock


And I added a nice, clean "exit" submenu section to the ~/.fluxbox/menu file.

    [submenu] (exit)
       [exit] (logout)
       [exec] (reboot) {systemctl reboot}
       [exec] (poweroff) {systemctl poweroff}
    [end]

I've been using Fluxbox for many years, usually as a second login session option to an already present desktop environment. That approach works nicely for slower, older computers; the DE's apps seem snappier when run under Fluxbox.

In my opinion, Fluxbox's manual page is the most important Fluxbox documentation, along with the related manpages listed at the end of man fluxbox:

SEE ALSO
       fluxbox-apps(5) fluxbox-keys(5) fluxbox-style(5) fluxbox-menu(5) fluxbox-remote(1)
       fbsetroot(1) fbsetbg(1) fbrun(1) startfluxbox(1)


Still, a web search can turn up lots of good info. The "official" Fluxbox website is at http://fluxbox.org/. Also see:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fluxbox
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fluxbox
https://wiki.debian.org/FluxBox