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Topic: Navigate fluxbox menus with keyboard?, Surely this is supported...

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teitoku

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Posted: Aug. 19 2006,18:04

What I meant is that since we've all got access to the source, there shouldn't be any need to compromise between features and size. Firefox, for example. People don't use firefox 0.8.6, they use a new version but tweak the source out so it's faster. And how much of a size difference is there between the two fluxbox versions here anyways? Oh well, I got that working so that's alright I guess.

Thanks for the iconbar tip, that's what I needed.

And the maximization...that's exactly what I meant. I set those in the init file, and I don't have any 'true fullscreen' apps that'd use SDL or anything. Just text editors, browsers, normal windowed apps. I set those exact settings, I've rebooted (and that's worthy of a new topic in itself), and they still take the entire screen space when I maximize.

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Posted: Aug. 19 2006,21:05

I might have one or both of those "maxover" resources wrong....i can't remember if "toolbar.maxOver" means that the toolbar will be over maximized windows, or that maximized windows will be over the toolbar. I'm in a different window manager right now, so I don't want to bother testing it until I'm done here =o)

You might also try "session.screen0.toolbar.onTop: true" and "session.screen0.slit.onTop: true". Reboot is not needed, by the way. You don't even need to restart fluxbox or X. Just reload the configuration (that option should be under the "Desktop" menu).

As far as firefox goes, I for one use the 1.0.6 version that comes with DSL. I have no interest in installing *.dsl extensions, particularly gtk2. Also, DSL has very little in the way of C/C++ development tools, so messing with sources isn't really something I want to bother with either. I've got two other fatter distros in which I do that =o). It's still open source, though, and if you want to do the work required to make DSL a flexible development system that option is available.

The devel version of Fluxbox is just a little under twice the size of fluxbox 0.1.14. There are many sweet additions under the hood, but there is also a lot of what I'd consider useless bulk...pixmap themeing, additional "helper" apps (one of which is now a requirement), for example. that's just one opinion, of course.

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teitoku

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Posted: Aug. 20 2006,03:18

You misunderstood what I wrote about firefox...
And I know I don't need to even restart X, but I was just saying that crappiness persists even across reboots, the big daddy of "use those new settings I gave you"s.

teitoku

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Posted: Aug. 21 2006,18:14

Well, I've got fluxbox 0.9.11 from MyDSL and set it to run just as the info file said. And it doesn't read my keys file at all. How do I make fluxbox work?

mikshaw

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Posted: Aug. 21 2006,22:07

The 0.9.11 extension uses its own config directory by default (/home/dsl/.fluxbox_0.9.11). This was done to ensure that the extension would not interfere with the included version of Fluxbox.

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