Wisp558
December 24th, 2008, 02:16 AM
Well, I'm trying to use Fluxbox as my secondary window manager, for use with gaming, as it tends to have much less overhead then GNOME, KDE, or even XFCE. So I have it installed, running, and using almost no resources. Great. I even have icons, now that I have fbdesk installed. I have even installed feh and gotten transparency. I have one or two questions about fluxbox, and a suggestion. Questions first!
1)As I got my icons working, I made my firefox icon's picture the firefox icon from /usr/share/pixmaps. However, it (the icon) is far too big. How may I get my icons to all stay a standard size?
2)I can set my background using fbsetbg -f /wallpaperfile It works great, even. However, how can I get the change to stick through sessions? --solved
3) How can I set commands to run at login? --solved
4) I use wicd as my net manager. Do I have to run wicd-client to get it started, or will it run invisibly on startup? --solved
5)I need a good way to edit the menu. To this end I have fme installed. Great! I can add things to the menu. However, the first entry is an include file, to include the default menu. That menu file has a big fat [DO NOT EDIT] sign on it. How can I change my menus without breaking them?
6) What is the keyboard command (if any) to change workspaces? -- solved
7) How might I display system usage statistics on my desktop??? --solved
Whew! I do like fluxbox a lot, from what I've seen! I hope I can get some closure for these issues and continue on with my super light desktop. After all, if I wanted that, I could have installed Vista, no?
And as for my suggestion, maybe we could have a flux n00b guide stickied to the top of the the Desktop Environment page! To help the others like me who aren't linux gurus but still want a speedy and responsive environment. =)
Even if you only have guesses or half-formed ideas, I'd still like to hear them!
Thanks in advance,
~Wisp
1)As I got my icons working, I made my firefox icon's picture the firefox icon from /usr/share/pixmaps. However, it (the icon) is far too big. How may I get my icons to all stay a standard size?
2)I can set my background using fbsetbg -f /wallpaperfile It works great, even. However, how can I get the change to stick through sessions? --solved
3) How can I set commands to run at login? --solved
4) I use wicd as my net manager. Do I have to run wicd-client to get it started, or will it run invisibly on startup? --solved
5)I need a good way to edit the menu. To this end I have fme installed. Great! I can add things to the menu. However, the first entry is an include file, to include the default menu. That menu file has a big fat [DO NOT EDIT] sign on it. How can I change my menus without breaking them?
6) What is the keyboard command (if any) to change workspaces? -- solved
7) How might I display system usage statistics on my desktop??? --solved
Whew! I do like fluxbox a lot, from what I've seen! I hope I can get some closure for these issues and continue on with my super light desktop. After all, if I wanted that, I could have installed Vista, no?
And as for my suggestion, maybe we could have a flux n00b guide stickied to the top of the the Desktop Environment page! To help the others like me who aren't linux gurus but still want a speedy and responsive environment. =)
Even if you only have guesses or half-formed ideas, I'd still like to hear them!
Thanks in advance,
~Wisp