Pager in Fluxbox slit
Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: Pager in Fluxbox slit
started by: tawalker
Posted by tawalker on Mar. 08 2006,22:43
I recently came back to DSL after some time away (not that I lost interest, just time...) - basically, I hadn't tried version 2.x until a couple of weeks ago. I was a bit disappointed that the slit as I knew it had largely disappeared, as I rather liked the 'stack' of little applets in the corner 
Thankfully, I found that I could get it back, at least with the applets I wanted, but there was one small annoyance: the slit was twice as wide as I would've liked, because the workspace pager was set up as four workspaces in a single row.
I fixed this temporarily by editing the Fluxbox init file and reducing the workspaces in the pager from 4 to 2. This makes the slit the correct width, but I'd prefer to have four workspaces as well!
Can anyone suggest how I can set up the pager so that it displays the workspaces in a 2x2 layout, instead of all four in a horizontal row?
(BTW: thanks to the developers for simply hiding the slit in DSL 2.x instead of removing it entirely - it's good to have the choice of using it
)Many thanks,
Tim.
Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 09 2006,02:40
Have a look at /home/dsl/.fluxbox/fluxter.bb
Posted by tawalker on Mar. 09 2006,19:05
Thanks, mikshaw - just what I needed!For future reference: I edited /home/dsl/.fluxbox/init to this:
session.screen0.workspaces: 4
and /home/dsl/.fluxbox/fluxter.bb to whatever setup you wish - in my case:
fluxter.columns: 2
fluxter.rows: 2
Much appreciated!
Tim
Posted by tawalker on Mar. 10 2006,18:02
Since my last post, I lost my DSL backup (long story) and have had to set up the above again. I mention it only because the workspaces are now no longer 'swallowed' by the slit, but lie in the bottom-left of the screen.I read here how to use wmswallow to bring the new mounter tool inside the slit, by adding this to .xinitrc:
wmswallow -geometry 70x80 docked docked.lua &
Can I modify this to work with the workspaces (Fluxter?)? Something like:
wmswallow -geometry 70x70 docked fluxter &
Or is there a better way?
Mant thx.
Tim
Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 10 2006,18:56
As far as I know, Fluxter already has the ability to start up in the slit without needing the wmswallow utility.Try "fluxter -w &"
Posted by tawalker on Mar. 10 2006,19:43
Yes, that did it - I've modified the Fluxter startup line in .xinitrc to use the '-w' switch, so hopefully that will solve the issue more permanently.Thanks once again!
Tim