User Feedback :: Navigate fluxbox menus with keyboard?

And don't call me Shirley!

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And don't call me Shirley!

Do we have clearance, Clarence?
Roger, Roger.
What's our vector, Victor?

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How do you even tell what version you're working with?

This command will tell you:

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fluxbox -version

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And why are we using fluxbox from 2002?

Because it's stable, it's useful, and it's much smaller than Fluxbox devel. There are some features added to devel that i think are nearly essential to a window manager, but the stable version is still better than most other newer window managers.

The /home/dsl/.fluxbox/keys file is very useful, and simple. It sounds as though you prefer to use a keyboard, so the keys file should be of particular interest.

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Woah, how worthless. Heck yeah I want it. How do you even tell what version you're working with? I didn't see anything that'd indicate the version. And why are we using fluxbox from 2002?

And _pathos.......what the heck are you talking about?

_pathos is probably suggesting that you add a line to ~/.fluxbox/keys that looks something like

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Control Shift z :ExecCommand aterm

so that you can execute the program you want from there instead of navigating through the menu.

And, a word to the wise, Kid. Try adopting a bit of a more appreciative tone to those who are taking the time to answer your questions.

I'm very appreciative of those who answer my questions. If I asked how to make a key shortcut to bring up aterm, I'd have known immediately what he was talking about and thanked him.

Mikshaw, thanks for your answers. I still think it's odd that open source apps are being treated as closed-source and old versions being packed in instead of new ones being fitted.

I'm having a problem with the 0.9.11 version now though...in the icon bar or whatever it's called, it always shows an item called 'fluxter'. Version 0.1.14 never did that and I'd rather 0.9.11 not do it either. How can I do this?

Also, it maximizes over the slit and the iconbar even though I've set it not to. I'd also like to correct that.

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I still think it's odd that open source apps are being treated as closed-source and old versions being packed in instead of new ones being fitted

I'm not sure what you mean about open source being treated as closed. Any apps released under GPL or GPL-compatible license are, and always will be, open source. The application can be distributed in binary form (as is done with practically every linux distro), but the source does not need to be included unless an additional license specifies that it does need to be included. The distributor simply needs to provide the source, or make known a location of the source, if it is requested.
Older versions of some applications are used in DSL because of the basic fact that all software suffers from bloat over the course of its development. At some point an application reaches a point where one must decide whether its useability balances or outweighs the increased size and memory use. In the case of Fluxbox, the stable version (0.1.14) provides a window manager that does what a window manager should do (manage windows), while giving the user a decent amount of easy-to-use features as an added bonus. It does this while remaining small, fast, and stable. The extensible nature of DSL allows to user to easily add a window manager of his choice, so there is really little reason to use the newer, bigger, slower version. Doing so would require removing something else from the distro (50mb limit).

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in the icon bar or whatever it's called, it always shows an item called 'fluxter'

The iconbar in 0.1.14 displays only the focused application (by default, anyway). If you have any other apps opened you won't see it. Fluxbox devel displays all windows in the iconbar. You can modify this using the apps file (needs to be created). The entry for fluxter would look something like this:

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[app] (fluxter)
[IconHidden] {yes}
[end]

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Also, it maximizes over the slit and the iconbar even though I've set it not to.

Not sure what you did to set this, but there are a few init settings that affect this.
session.screen0.toolbar.maxOver: false
session.screen0.fullMaximization: false
session.screen0.maxOverSlit: false

Some changes to init might require you to force the config reload

If you speak of true fullscreen windows (through openGL, SDL, etc, such as games), I'm not sure if fluxbox can prevent this.

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