Fluxbox 0.910 is released

Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: Fluxbox 0.910 is released
started by: Alisdair Kelly

Posted by Alisdair Kelly on Sep. 01 2004,13:32

Fluxbox Version 0.9.10

Get it here:
< http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fluxbox/fluxbox-0.9.10.tar.gz >
(md5sum: a17dd00ffc2637554539ada36a0ae31d )
< http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fluxbox/fluxbox-0.9.10.tar.bz2 >
(md5sum: 7a04a21960b8bc364bcc002389008989 )

For info, news and screen shots of the new features:
< http://fluxbox.org/version-0.9.php >

Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 01 2004,13:46

sweet!
downloading now.

If there's anything monumentally improved, you can expect an extension after a bit of testing.

Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 01 2004,21:00

There's some good and some not-so-good about this release.

There were some improvements in menu display...menu alpha no longer fades the menu text (very cool), and drawing the menu seems a bit more reliable and faster. In fixing these, they seem to have created a couple of bugs...menu takes a bit longer to display when fluxbox is first started, and if you have a delay on the menu you get overlapping submenus.
Styles from fluxbox stable now seem to display properly! Very good.
I haven't seen the "failed to read WM Protocols" warning when loading aterm and dockapps...this was an annoyance since 0.9.6 =o)

There are some features added that I haven't yet looked into. Overall, this is the best development version yet, from what I've seen so far.

Posted by jerome5 on Sep. 02 2004,04:11

just a question:

Is flux box the gui system that comes in DSL?
Also if it is, can it be compared to a miniversion of KDE?
Can you install the new version over the old one by installing the packages?

thanks

Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 02 2004,05:25

That's three questions....

"Is flux box the gui system that comes in DSL?"
Yes.

"Also if it is, can it be compared to a miniversion of KDE?"
Not really. Fluxbox is a window manager, which means that it manages windows. It controls how and where windows are displayed, and what sort of decoration (frame) the windows have. KDE is a desktop envioronment, which means that it has a window manager, but also includes a lot of other stuff in a single package. These things, when used with a window manager, would be separate applications unrelated to the WM...a desktop environment puts all these things together in a unified application in the hopes of making your computing simpler. This includes such things as a file manager, sound daemon, centralized configuration, utilities and themes. You could think of it as being similar to the Windows desktop, which has Explorer, Internet Explorer, Control Panel, and an assortment of other tools that are built to work together as a single box of tools.

"Can you install the new version over the old one by installing the packages?"
Yes. However, if you currently have it installed via package it's most likely located in /usr/. If you then install from source without any specific configuration changes, it will be installed in /usr/local/, which will result in two installations.

Posted by ico2 on Sep. 06 2004,12:46

cool, looking foward to mikshaw's extension.